Savage,

I hoped to avoid both those methods to add transparency.
This game will feature a level editor and I want to make it easy on people to change the images.

The biggest problem is that I have to assume the people who want to create their own graphics and such don't have any knowledge of anything which has something to do with drawing pictures.

I hoped to just get them to use paint and copy-paste some stuff.

Now it seems there are only the masking or image transparency layers (PNG or GIF).

Masking needs to work with a seperate file (black/white) or a loop on all pixels (could work, but doesn't sound efficient)

A transparency layer could work, I think.. Just need to add a written tutorial on how to make gifs with transparency.

(You guys must be thinking, what in the world did this guy get into?)

I'll look futher into the masking bit for now... I hope I missed something that will make it all a bit easier on me


BTW traveller. Thanks for another great set of demos... They really helped out so far.... The example for adding text is more clear to me there than in NeHe's example