Transparency Gradient

[Megatron]

I was wondering if it's possible to have a sprite who's tranparency changes from side to the other? For instance, I have a sprite that I want to be fully visible at the top but then fade to transparent by the time I hit the bottom. Would you have to use shaders for this?

Thanks

[nulloid]

What if you just set the image's pixel's transparency by hand? sf::Sprite::GetImage() gives you the image, and then you can modify it's pixels.

[Groogy]

You can create a generic mask/layer/whatever it is called image for it. You just render it above the image you want and set the global color of the sprite. Never tried but I think it should work.

[Xorlium]

No, no, what (s)he is asking is different from what you guys answered.

What you want is a perfect example on when to use shaders.

The shader should be something like this (I'll be overly verbose for clarity. You might want to do it all in a single line)

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uniform sampler2D current; //set this to sf::Shader::CurrentTexture as explained in the tutorials

void main()
{
  vec2 thisposition = gl_TexCoord[0].xy;
  float alpha = thisposition.y;  //this is the y coordinate, from 0 to 1
  vec4 pixel = texture2D(current, gl_TexCoord[0].xy);
  pixel.a = alpha;
  gl_FragColor = pixel;
}