al_set_sep...ap_blender(3)

💅 NAME 💅

al_set_separate_bitmap_blender — literally the Allegro 5 API, bestie, and today we're learning about the separate bitmap blender ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_set_separate_bitmap_blender(int op, int src, int dst, int alpha_op, int alpha_src, int alpha_dst)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture al_set_bitmap_blender(3)… but make it extra 💅. This is that, except it lets you pick a separate blending operation for the alpha channel — yes, a whole different blend just for alpha, main character energy fr fr.

The way that this is useful: if your target bitmap also has an alpha channel, and those two alpha channels need to be combined in a different way than the color components do — yeah, that's the whole vibe. Colour components doing one thing, alpha doing another. Two blenders, one bitmap, iconic 🦋.

ngl, the page slaps an [Unstable API]: New API. on this one — so, like, it's new new. Worth knowing before you build your whole personality around it 😭

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

5.2.5 — a gift to us all 🎁

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• al_set_bitmap_blender(3) — the original, the blueprint, the mother 🫶
• al_reset_bitmap_blender(3) — for when you need to undo the whole situation 🌈

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and that's the page, bestie — no cap, you got this 💖 this lil transmission came to you courtesy of the Allegro reference manual, page al_set_sep...ap_blender(3) 🎀 bye mwah 🧚