xeridea

9th July 2005 20:59 UTC

AVS Alpha Blending
The alpha blending option in AVS is greyed out, though I am running XP, I can get it to go transparent by setting alpha blending in the winamp options, but AVS wont do it itself. Anyone else having this trouble?

TomyLobo

10th July 2005 03:30 UTC

detach avs

jdb264c

5th December 2006 09:30 UTC

Detach?

TomyLobo

5th December 2006 11:14 UTC

yes, click the "detach visualization" button

DrO

5th December 2006 13:20 UTC

that assumes that you're using the modern skin or any of the freeform skins which allow you to embed the vis windows (like avs) into them. is a limitation of the skinning engine as for why the alpha blending is disabled in that case.

-daz

jdb264c

9th December 2006 11:17 UTC

Ah, so if I'm using a modern skin (Valkyrie_beta 2) that doesn't seem to have this option, I'm forever doomed to go without alpha?

Warrior of the Light

9th December 2006 13:26 UTC

no, if your skin doesnt have a detach button then detach the AVS window in the default modern skin, switch back and you're fine

jdb264c

9th December 2006 20:08 UTC

Strange, no matter what skin I use, and after pressing the now obvious Detach-button, it's still greyed in AVS?

HeadRush420

2nd May 2009 04:04 UTC

bump - I don't think this thread is dead, since jdb264c's problem wasn't resolved.

I have had this problem with every computer I've had since the gray checkbox first appeared in AVS.
It doesn't say (experimental) anymore, but it still doesn't do anything.

I set cfg_trans=1 in the [AVS] section of winamp.ini, but all that did was add a gray checkmark to the gray checkbox, and it still doesn't do anything. I can't think of anything else to try.

I have had this problem with:
Windows 2000
Windows XP Home SP2
Windows XP Pro SP2,SP3
Windows XP MCE SP2

Warrior of the Light

3rd May 2009 17:45 UTC

As far as I know, AVS checks to see if your graphics card supports alphablending. Did you check with different cards? Did you perform a clean [link] install?

HeadRush420

4th May 2009 04:17 UTC

Yes to both questions.
Winamp skins with alpha blending work fine.
I have a lot of other programs that use alpha blending, and AVS is the only one that refuses to do it.

Warrior of the Light

4th May 2009 10:13 UTC

strange.. it works for me, that's all I can say.
I really have no idea, then