[mapserver-users] layer transparent

Ivan Paoluzzi tesimap at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 9 08:46:49 EST 2002


Sorry,
but I have forgotten to tell that I'm using, in this project, mapserver 3.5
I'm searching a method to render transparent a layer of polygons such as 
TRANSPARENCY in mapserver 3.6

Ivan





>From: "Martin, Daniel" <DMartin at erac.com>
>To: 'Ivan Paoluzzi' <tesimap at hotmail.com>, 
>mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] layer transparent
>Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:27:27 -0600
>
>There are two ways to go about that, AFAIK.  They are quite different, but
>it depends on what effect you are trying to achieve.
>
>One is to use a PIXMAP symbol with a setting for TRANSPARENT:
>
>SYMBOL
>	NAME 'dither-black-25_percent'
>	TYPE PIXMAP
>	IMAGE dither-black-25_Percent.gif
>	TRANSPARENT 1
>END
>
>In that case, the color in the palette index 1 would be transparent.
>
>Newer versions of MapServer (not sure, I think 3.6+) support a setting in
>the layer object:
>LAYER
>    NAME "MY LAYER"
>    TRANSPARENCY 30
>
>This sets the layer at 30% of full.
>
>Hope that helps,
>Dan
>


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