[JAVA3D] Flags for alpha channel? ... (was Invisible pixels in textures)

[Risto Rangel-Kuoppa]

Thank you to Alessandro and Florin who helped me with the last topic .... :o)     Actually I have redefined my application so the textures are of type RGBA so I can use the Alpha channel to make the pixels I want invisible, I do this because it has to be dynamic in runtime ... but now I realize that the changes are not been updated ... the code to access the texture is as follows (right now I am testing to create half of the texture transparent)   /**********************************************/             for (int x=0; x<w; x++)             {                 for (int y=0; y<h; y++)                 {                     if (x > w/2)                     {                         bf.setRGB(x,y,0x0000FF00);                     } else                     {                         bf.setRGB(x,y,0xFF00FF00);                     }                 }             }   /***********************************************/ where bf is a BufferedImage which I created with: /***********************************************/   bfBufferedImage=new BufferedImage(TEXTURE_SIZE,                         TEXTURE_SIZE,                         BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);   /***************************************************/ which I "attach" to texture and material in the following code: /***************************************************/   Appearance materialAppear=new Appearance(); materialAppear.setCapability(Appearance.ALLOW_TEXTURE_READ); materialAppear.setCapability(Appearance.ALLOW_TEXTURE_WRITE); materialAppear.setCapability(Appearance.ALLOW_TRANSPARENCY_ATTRIBUTES_READ); materialAppear.setCapability(Appearance.ALLOW_TRANSPARENCY_ATTRIBUTES_WRITE);   ImageComponent2D image=new ImageComponent2D(ImageComponent.FORMAT_RGBA,bfBufferedImage);   texture = new Texture2D(Texture2D.BASE_LEVEL,Texture2D.RGBA,TEXTURE_SIZE,TEXTURE_SIZE); texture.setCapability(Texture2D.ALLOW_IMAGE_READ); texture.setCapability(Texture2D.ALLOW_IMAGE_WRITE); texture.setCapability(Texture2D.RGBA); texture.setImage(0, image); materialAppear.setTexture(texture);   /****************************************************************/ And in runtime I update it with (after changing the RGBA values): /****************************************************************/   ImageComponent2D image=new ImageComponent2D(ImageComponent.FORMAT_RGBA, bfBufferedImage); texture=(Texture2D)( voAppearance.getTexture()); texture.setImage(0, image); voAppearance.setTexture(texture);   /*****************************************/   Could someone please tell me if there is something missing in my code so I can actually make some pixels transparent? ... Because so far, all the texture is completely opaque and it should be half transparent and half opaque.   Thank you in advance! :o)   Risto.