a quetion about alpha blending

OpenGL OpenGL: Basic Coding
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there are two RGB images with size of 128*128.
i want to put the second image on the right of the first image, and there is a oeverlap section between them. the width of the overlap is 32.

because i can’t get alpha value from the image, i don’t know how to use alpha blending in the overlap section.
and how to let the images’ border more smooth?

thanks

2

What is the reason of not being able to get alpha value from the image? Anyway, it is possible to add alpha chanel with desired gradient values by hand and then just blen two textures.

3

Place the image in a texture and draw a textured white quadrilateral, apply alpa to the image using vertex alpha on the smoothshaded polygons that make up the quad, you can apply this blend to the edge 32 pixels of the quad by positioning vertices at the appropriate location.