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Revision as of 05:54, 10 October 2007

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The alpha channel is the fourth channel of an image, where the first three channels are red, green, and blue. Generally, a TGA file can be saved with just the RGB channels (24bit), or with all four channels (32bit). In Source, it is used to define either opacity or self-illumination.


See also

Alpha