Re: Transparent TriMesh bug

[Frank C <li...@si...>]

On 8-Jul-04, at 8:57 PM, James W. Walker wrote:

> I ran into a situation where a transparent TriMesh should be out of  
> view of a camera, yet some distorted part of it is visible.  The  
> object is slightly behind the camera and off to the side.

That sounds like a side effect of this bug:  
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=967765&group_id=45158&atid=442052>

> I am not sure that I totally understand the problem, but I found a way  
> to make it go away:  Modify ir_geom_transparent_add to reject a  
> primitive unless all of its z coordinates are in the correct visible  
> range, 0 to -1.  Comments?

That may be a good idea anyway, but it doesn't fix the underlying  
problem. Even entirely in-view transparent primitives get distorted, so  
something's screwy with the projection...

Frank.