OpenGL texture with transparency (alpha)

Question

I'm trying to render a texture with part opaque color and other part with transparency.

This is my draw function for the object:

void drawHighGrass(){
glDisable(GL_LIGHTING);
glClearColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
glColor4f(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0);

glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);

glDepthMask(GL_FALSE);

glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);



glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texturas[HIGH_GRASS]);

glPushMatrix();
//glTranslatef(1000, 0, 1000);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f(0, 0, 0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f(100, 0, 0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f(100, 40, 0);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f(0, 40, 0);
glEnd();

glPopMatrix();

glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glDisable(GL_BLEND);
glDepthMask(GL_TRUE);
glEnable(GL_LIGHTING);

}

The problem is that in the transparent part it's showing solid white. I can make the texture transparent by using glColor4f(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.5) but that's not what I want because it makes the entire texture transparent and not only the transparent part.

I've checked, my texture files is a PNG with transparency.

This sounds like it could be a problem with how the texture is being loaded. What is your code for loading that texture? — Maple

Maple Maple · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-25T14:26:59

Restating the solution here so others can find it easily.

Your rendering code seems to be correct, so what seems to have been the problem was the texture loading code. When loading a texture, you must be sure that you are passing in the correct flags for the internal texture pixel format (GL_RGBA8, GL_RGBA16, etc.) as well as the source image pixel format (GL_RGBA or GL_BGRA, etc.).

OpenGL texture with transparency (alpha)

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