Re: [Plib-users] Semi-transparent plane

[Wolfram K. <w_...@rz...>]

"Ben Discoe" <be...@wa...> wrote:

>ssgSimpleState would be just fine for your translucent object, if it =
worked.
>That class, and material properties in general, are not actually =
functional
>in PLIB/SSG.

Wrong.

>If you look at the applications using SSG, you'll see that the majority =
of
>them use entirely textured objects - the underlying material usually =
being a
>solid white per-vertex color,=20

That is indeed true for the majority of things, but the minority of
faces that are untextured, coloured work. I "played" with lots of
planes from Micro$oft Flight Simulator. They use much white, textured
faces as well. But several have, for example, untextured, coloured
spinners. These work. The only problem I know of is that .ASE loader
and/or writer doesnt work with this and the same is true for .AC, as I
found out just yesterday evening :-(.

We are working on the loaders/writers.
Apart from that, ssgSimpleState works.

Regarding transparency: Quite a lot of the airplanes have transparent
cockpits. This works as well.

>For actual use of material properties, including translucency, you may =
want
>to look at other scene graph APIs, such as OSG,
>http://www.openscenegraph.org/

Why? If you really know of a bug apart from .ASE and .AC, then please
tell it to us, since we are working towards PLIB 1.4.0, that is, a
stable version.


>
>-Ben
>http://vterrain.org/

Bye bye,
Wolfram.