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 ===== Understanding How The Fog Image Works ===== ===== Understanding How The Fog Image Works =====
-Many designers find it difficult to understand why the fog image is the bottom layer. For some it seems much more intuitive that fog should be on the top layer. If you find this to be the case, it may help to think of it this way. The engine doesn't erase - it can only paint, but one thing it can paint is that special color called transparency. By painting transparency - the bottom fog layer becomes visible. Fog is the absence of a a fill color - so when the engine calls for fog, it simply 'fills' the territory with 100% transparency, thereby exposing the fog image on the bottom layer. +Many designers initially find it difficult to understand why the fog image is the bottom layer. For some it seems much more intuitive that fog should be on the top layer. If you find this to be the case, it may help to think of it this way. The engine doesn't erase - it can only paint, but one thing it can paint is that special color called transparency. By painting transparency - the bottom fog layer becomes visible. Fog is the absence of a a fill color - so when the engine calls for fog, it simply 'fills' the territory with 100% transparency, thereby exposing the fog image on the bottom layer. 
  
 If you made fog the top layer, you'd never see the fill layer. The fog layer should have no transparency. If you made fog the top layer, you'd never see the fill layer. The fog layer should have no transparency.
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