All Clear

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Sat May 15, 2010 3:14 pm

Now Oolite's getting more and more clever w/ shadery thingies, are we any closer to being able to do transparency for skins and textures, other than the decally thing?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat May 15, 2010 3:32 pm

No. You can do binary masking in shaders (and it could be added for non-shader mode), but transparency is unlikely to ever happen.

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Sat May 15, 2010 5:41 pm

Sigh, I guess I won't get to use Wonder Woman's invisible plane as a ship then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_plane

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat May 15, 2010 6:12 pm

Well… not until we get environment maps (EMMSTRAN). Mmm, refractionlicious!

Seeing through an entire ship is easier than seeing through part of it.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Sun May 16, 2010 8:20 am

Ahruman wrote:
No. You can do binary masking in shaders (and it could be added for non-shader mode), but transparency is unlikely to ever happen.

ah, that's a shame. is it just really complex to do, or is it something to do w/ the way the Oolite engine works?