Transparency: Difference between revisions
Created page with "Notes on rendering transparency. Rendering transparent objects is generally more expensive than rendering opaque objects. Opaque objects are rendered front to back with a depth buffer write. This means fragments are calculated and written to by the front-most object. Sorting can even be ignored where performance isn't as crucial. Transparent objects must be sorted back to front and each object rendered in their entirely. ==Ignoring internal transparency== 1. Render the..." |
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If you want to render a mesh as if it's opaque and apply transparency: | |||
# Render the object opaquely to an intermediate render texture. Then render that texture to the scene. | |||
# Render to a depth buffer than render with depth test as equal. | |||
# Sort the indices front to back and render with depth write and depth test. | |||
# If the mesh is convex, render just the front triangles. | |||
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