I am trying to build a simple little game with some people walking around, but when I overlap one image with another, the whole area of
the control overlaps, so I see this white rectangle with the man in
the middle moving around.

I didn't find any transparent options on the image control, so I tried with a picturebox control instead, but I cannot seem to get it working.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,

Ole

You have to use image formats (like icons) that allow transparency. Or, if using bitmaps, use an unique color for the transparency, load them in a ListImages control, and select that color to be transparent
Marco

Okay, I'm lost - PLEASE HELP.

The only reference that looks VB6-okay is the bitmap reference to ImageList object in the Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 component, and even though I can load all eight animations for my little moving guy (8 .bmp files) and specify backcolor and mask color, I see NOTHING when the program is running.

Can you please guide me through what I need to do?

Thanks in advance,

Ole

sorry but I have used only icon images, never bitmaps. drawing with a transparent background is not an easy task even with API, I remember reading articles about that. for that reason, I use only icons. sorry I can't help you with bitmaps
Marco