Re: Transparency in Stereo ? (Merry Christmas and an Happy New Year to pfAll)

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Ran Yakir (rany++at++bvr.co.il)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:01:32 +0200


Hi Antonio,

If you are using blended alpha, you must sort the geometry to avoid this
problem. However, Performer does not sort the geometry inside a geoset, and
I assume every tree is a geoset.
Also, bounding box sorting will have undefined results in the case of two
intersecting polygons.
The best solution you could get will be to turn on PFSTATE_ALPHAFUNC on the
geostates, so that the totaly transparent pixels will not be rendered at all.

Or you can draw billboards

Ran

"Antonio F. Silva" wrote:

> Hi,
> I am using transperencies in stereo but I have a problem. Behind the
> polygon textured with an RGBA texture some polygons (also with
> transparencies or not) are also transparent. I think this could be
> related to the sorting of the polygons of the scene. I had used
> PFTR_BLEND_ALPHA | PFTR_NO_OCCLUDE and PFCULL_SORT in the
> pfChanTravMode, but the problem remain. And the problem occure only in
> stereo mode in mono the scene are just fine rendered.
> I have an image in attach (trees.jpg) so that could explain better
> what I mean.
> Does anyone have a clue ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Merry Christmas and an Happy New Year to pfAll :-)
>
> ASilva
>
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