DirectX8 + Alpha Channels

[Robin]

Converted Winds Whisper's engine to DirectX8 for a new project I'm working on.

It can handle Alpha Channels!

Here's the .png files which are used as textures.




If you save those and load them in photoshop, you'll see that those bits which look transparent really are

Only took me a couple of hours for the conversion which I think is pretty good.

I replaced my character with the pole thing, so all I need to do now is make the engine recognise what tiles are saved where and render them appropriately

EDIT:

Here's a special effect