Right now all I have is the documentation on the SDL API. I have to
gather some information from putting a lot of it together in my head.
However, without an overview things aren’t always as clear to me so I
turn to this list for a bit of help.
I’m in test phase right now just to try out some techniques, mostly
with what might be called particles but mostly just to familiarize
myself with a vector container. I’ll eventually be trying to make
particles using a variable alpha value but for now it’s just a fixed
value.
I’m a bit mystified at what I need to set to what. I’ve got my video
surface and a background surface which is currently all white. I blit
the background to the screen and then place each of the particles
individually on the screen. When I set the screen, via SDL_SetAlpha
with SDL_SRCALPHA it doesn’t make any difference what value I set the
pixel alpha to. If I set the per surface alpha to something approaching
zero the screen fades in to a light grey but it still seems to have
little effect on the alpha appearance of the particles, which are almost
transparent.
What exactly am I missing?
TIA,
Lilith