   Learning Allegro. What is a 'clipped' bitmap?
  Hi,I'm just learning Allegro, and was looking at some tutorials. One of them was 'creating clipped bitmaps' i went through the lesson and understood most of it, but it never really explained what a 'clipped' bitmap was, just how to make one. Can anyone fill me on this?Also what does it mean for something to be 'transparent'? like when you use masked_bitmap?   
  I assume it means taking a clipped part of a loaded bitmap, and just using that instead of the whole image.For example; clipping from a bitmap at (x, y) with size (w, h);  Being transparent refers to not being able to see the background, just your image.  Allegro uses rgb (255, 0, 255) for transparent backgrounds.  I however suggest using something like loadpng because you can come up with some nice transparent effects on your images, more so than standard bitmaps.http://tjaden.strangesoft.net/loadpng/index.html