Alpha Blending: I Can See Through You
Alpha blending in OpenGL ES is pretty easy to enable. We only need two method calls:
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_BLEND);
gl.glBlendFunc(GL10.GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL10.GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
The first method call should be familiar: it just tells OpenGL ES that it should apply alpha blending to all triangles we render from this point on. The second method is a little bit more involved. It specifies how the source and destination color should be combined. If you remember what we discussed in Chapter 3, the way a source color and a destination color are combined is governed by a simple blending equation. The method glBlendFunc() just tells OpenGL ES which kind of equation to use. The preceding parameters specify that we ...
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