Do icons need transparency?

I am making a new version of wc3borderizer and I was just wandering are there any icons that need alpha channel?

not sure... =\ but blp does need alpha... so make it white and thats it =)
ahh wait yeah ! yes icons does support alpha. if you mean this.

They need ONE alpha channel but that is it, RGBA. That is all.

If you don't give them an alpha channel of any sort, WC3 will assume entirely transparent and your icon will be invisible, I believe.

Ok since you are all so sure I would like an example of standard wc3 icon that uses alpha.

cohadar omg you are so lame T_T

1) you can search first
2) you can create own image and test
3) what is the problem ?! and why you create such threads ? if you don't "listen" to the posts here posted...


in TcX i have invis icons. i am not sure but they may also have blend filter... (255 alpha)

so yes icons need transparency.

4) only lame users use your tool anyway.

offtopic:
Only lame people play Quake 3 to start with,
and TcX players throw IndexOutOfBoundsException when you try GetAbsoluteLameness(TcX_player).


Now does anyone have an example of standard wc3 transparent icon?
I think not, what it would be transparent against, icon background?

You need an alpha channel. Alpha is the inverse of invisibility.

Only in one compression type.
BLP format has 3 compression types, one of witch does not have alpha.
So I was just asking what compression format to use for icons.

And since icons have no use of transparency (at least not a widespread one) I am going for that one.

EDIT:
I think I will add transparency after all....
Why? Because I can.

EDIT:
LoL after testing it turns out that icons don't use transparency even if you give them alpha channel.
Wc3 simply does not supports transparency for icons.