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FS#55 - Output_Alpha=on doesn't work as documented

Attached to Project: POV-Ray
Opened by Olaf Reinhold (yamo64) - Thursday, 03 September 2009, 07:17 GMT
Last edited by Christoph Lipka (clipka) - Thursday, 11 February 2010, 16:46 GMT
Task Type Definite Bug
Category Frontend → Image format
Status Requires testing
Assigned To Christoph Lipka (clipka)
Operating System All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.7 beta 32
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I have installed POV-Ray 3.7 beta 34 on Windows 7
The setting ‘Output_Alpha=on’ doesn’t work as documented. With this setting the Background appear black and the scene is transparent.

Check with this Code:

camera {
   location  <3, 3, -3>
   direction <0, 0, 2.9>
   look_at   <0, 0, 0>
   right 1.0*x
}
light_source { < 3, 3, -3> color red 1 green 1 blue 1 }
sphere 
{
   <0,0,0> 0.8
   pigment {color rgb<1,1,0>}
   finish
   {
      ambient 0.2
      diffuse 0.8
   }
}

and with this ini file:

Input_File_Name=C:\Users\dfv_rei1\AppData\Local\Temp\Cuadrigula\PreviewObject.pov
Output_File_Name=C:\Users\dfv_rei1\AppData\Local\Temp\Cuadrigula\PreviewObject.tga
Output_File_Type=t
Output_Alpha=on
Bits_Per_Color=24
+W121 +H121
+a0.3
+q11
+a
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Comment by Christoph Lipka (clipka) - Wednesday, 09 September 2009, 10:23 GMT
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → New)
  • Field changed: Operating System (Windows 7 → All)
  • Task assigned to Christoph Lipka (clipka)

Behavior is indeed different from 3.6.

As POV-Ray uses a transmit value with fully opaque defined as 0.0 and fully transparent defined as 1.0, but TGA format uses an alpha value with values defined the other way round, this needs to be corrected; apparently, in refactoring of the image data container to store alpha instead of transparency, this correction was duplicated, with the effect of cancelling it out.

Comment by Christoph Lipka (clipka) - Wednesday, 09 September 2009, 10:36 GMT
  • Field changed: Status (New → Requires testing)
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (0% → 100%)

fixed with change #4886

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