[osg-users] Compositing multiple osg::Image w/ alpha channels

[Sebastian Messerschmidt]

Hi Martin,
> Hi,
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> I have multiple osg::Images, each one has a transparent background. When compositing them onto a background image(using copySubImage), this transparent background is not respected and is instead filled in with white, looking fairly ugly.
Your approach is sort of akward (if I get it correctly). If you want to 
blend images offline, use a image processing tool. If you want to do it 
online/with OpenGL use blending, multi-texturing  and possibly render to 
texture if you need the result as an image.
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> I do not see any other methods related to compositing images, other than mix(). But, because the images are not the same size, mix() will not work.
What about resizing/resampling them then?
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> Does some method exist that would respect the transparent backgrounds, or will I have to roll my own (not that it would be difficult, but I also don't want to reinvent the wheel)
I still don't get what you want to do. Do you want to do image 
processing or rendering?  If you need to render, simply use blending or 
multitexturing and a shader that does the "composition" math as you desire.
Could you explain, what your process is?

Cheers
Sebastian
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> Thank you!
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