Dear Adam, I can't remember if alpha works with pygame/SDL, but it definitely works with the Python Imaging Library and from a Numeric array. See the alpha_texture.py example. adam naples wrote: > HI, this is probably a really stupid question. > but how do I display pngs with transparency information? I am trying > to display multiple images with some overlapping. > right now all I get is my image inside of a black rectangle > I'm using this code to load the images > > filename = os.path.join("pad.png") > pygame_surface = pygame.image.load(filename) > texture = Texture(pygame_surface) > > > thanks in advance > -a > > ====================================== > The Vision Egg mailing list > Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/visionegg > Website: http://www.visionegg.org/mailinglist.html ====================================== The Vision Egg mailing list Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/visionegg Website: http://www.visionegg.org/mailinglist.html