Re: transparency & specularity

[James W. W. <os...@jw...>]

On Apr 5, 2004, at 5:35 PM, Frank C wrote:

>> In the current design, all the transparent triangles are saved in a 
>> buffer and drawn at the end of the rendering pass.  There is no 
>> indication of whether Phong illumination was on or off when a 
>> particular triangle was added to the buffer, though it wouldn't be 
>> difficult to add that.
>
> I think it would be necessary to add that distinction, otherwise it 
> would break expected behaviour when using Lambert or null shaders on 
> transparent geometry.

You're right.  In the code I just checked in, the extra specular 
rendering is only done on triangles that were submitted with Phong 
rendering (and fill style == filled.)
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