[vtkusers] Opacity and vtkColorTransferFunction

[Lisa Avila]

Hello Wen-Hsing,

vtkColorTransferFunction does not support opacity - all colors have opacity 
of 1.0, which I believe overrides the opacity of the actor.

Lisa

At 03:22 PM 8/15/2003, Wen-Hsing Chiang wrote:
>Hi,
>I am getting a problem in making an actor translucent. The color of the
>actor is mapped to the scalar values by vtkColorTransferFunction. I
>tried to set a rather small opacity value (0.1) to the actor, but it
>remains opaque. The problem does not occur when using vtkLookupTable.
>Since I need to map particular values to designated colors,
>vtkLookupTable is not suitable.
>
>Here is the suedo code, can anyone tell me what is wrong? Thanks!
>
>vtkPolyData * pPolyData = vtkPolyData::New()
>//set up pPolyData here....
>
>vtkColorTransferFunction * pColorTransferFunction =
>vtkColorTransferFunction::New();
>for (int i = 0; i < m_iNumberOfColors; i++)
>{
>     pColorTransferFunction->AddRGBPoint(value[i], red[i], green[i],
>blue[i]);
>}
>// pColorTransferFunction->SetAlpha(0.1) does not work also!!
>
>vtkPolyDataMapper * pPolyDataMapper     = vtkPolyDataMapper::New();
>pPolyDataMapper->SetInput(pPolyData);
>pPolyDataMapper->SetLookupTable(pColorTransferFunction);
>
>vtkActor * pActor = vtkActor::New();
>pActor->SetMapper(pPolyDataMapper);
>pActor->GetProperty()->SetOpacity(.1);
>......
>
>
>
>Wen-Hsing Chiang, Ph.D.
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