Re: Non-transparent space station

[Roger Burton West <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:07:53PM +0100, Martin Schweiger wrote:
>I will set the ALPHABLENDENABLE render state for stations
>in the next update, which should solve this problem.
>
>The downside is that according to the documentation
>alpha blending is "expensive", i.e. may cause a performance
>hit. This is the reason it wasn't enabled for stations so
>far, since none of the current stations used transparency.

Would it be possible to compromise and require an ALPHA_ENABLE in the
station's configuration file in order to take advantage of this feature?
I think I'm probably the only person who's wanted this so far, and I
certainly wouldn't consider it an extra burden.

Roger