Re: [Plib-users] transparent cube

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Marc Escher wrote:

> I still have some problems with transparencies :-( . From the doc and your
> previews answers PLIB renders translucent polygon in no particular order.

That's true.

> Unfortunately I have to display some objects that globally act like
> transparent cubes,  with a correct rendering of the faces in the back. Is
> there a way to force the drawing order of leaves in ssg ? Or any way around
> to get the right result ?

We have had a contribution of an alpha-polygon sorter (well - I think it's
actually a transparent *OBJECT* sorter)...I just havn't gotten around to
checking it into the CVS yet.

It won't be in a 1.4.x release - we're putting it into 1.5.xx - so it'll
be *formally* released in the 1.6.0 release in a few months time.

Of course this is only a "duct-tape" solution - it patches over some
transparency problems (at significant CPU costs) - but there will still
be problems.

Read my *rant* on the subject here:

   http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1/alpha_sorting.html

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