Lance R. Marrou (marrou++at++vsl.ist.ucf.edu)
Thu, 27 Oct 1994 16:16:44 -0400 (EDT)
I load an F18 with a transparent cockpit from a MultiGen Flight
file. The transparency is handled somewhere else. I also have
transparent explosions (well, the alpha value changes over time,
but that is irrelevant).
I put the F18 on the front of the scene and all explosions at the
very end. (thus guaranteeing the explosion to be rendered last).
Forunately, the F18's cockpit is also somehow rendered last, despite
where it is the geometry scene. Unfortunately, it is only rendered
last with respect to that model. In fact, if other geometry is
loaded before the F18, when I look through the transparent cockpit,
the other geometry pops through before the geometry within the
cockpit if you can imagine such a picture.
Also, the cockpit always shows through the explosion, even when the
explosion is at its most dense point (largest alpha).
BTW, I am using an Extreme (Indigo2). Eventually, this will also
run on a Reality Engine^2 (Onyx).
Q1: Does my explanation and problem make sense? :)
Q2: Is there a solution to visualize this stuff correctly?
I cannot waste the time to depth-sort the geometry on a frame-by-frame
basis if that is needed for the solution.
Thanks for any response!
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