[Mapserver-users] display a translucently layer on top of others

[Eric Bridger]

TRANSPARENCY works in 3.6 and 3.5 also.

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 16:52, Charlton Purvis wrote:
> Check out the TRANSPARENCY property.  I believe you have to be running
> MapServer 3.7.x for this to kick in.
> 
>  
> 
> LAYER
> 
>   TRANSPARENCY 75
> 
>   CLASS
> 
>   END
> 
> END
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tai Le [mailto:tai.le at sbcglobal.net] 
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 12:11 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] display a translucently layer on top of
> others
> 
>  
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new with MapServer. I would like to display a layer (of polygon
> type) translucently on top of other layers. One way I can do it is set
> its symbol to a "crosshash" style:
> 
>  
> 
> SYMBOL
>   NAME 'crosshatch'
>   TYPE VECTOR
>   POINTS
>     0 0
>     2 2
>   END
> END
> 
> I know this is not the right way, you can "see thru" this layer, but not
> truely "translucent".
> 
> Is there other way of doing this (also, if we can set the transparency
> level)? Thanks.
> 
> -- Tai.
>