Re: [pygame] sprite backgrounds saving as white

[Sean Wolfe <ether.joe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cool thanks!

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:13 PM, James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:08:52PM -0300, Sean Wolfe wrote:
>> so my sprites are coming up on screen with a white background. I
>> loaded the sprites in my drawing program (paint.net) and removed the
>> white so that the only pixels are the character itself. However when I
>> save to .bmp format the white background comes back!
>>
>> A problem because I'm using various colors in the game background.
>>
>> Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong? I don't think it's a pygame
>> problem per se, but I figured somebody here might know the answer.
>>
>> thanks!
>
> BMP format has no transparency. If you use BMP, then you have no choice
> but to use colorkey transparency.
> http://pygame.org/docs/ref/surface.html#Surface.set_colorkey
>
> But what you probably really want is to ise PNG format instead of BMP.
> PNG actually supports transparency.
>
> ---
> James Paige
>



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