Spring RTS Engine

is it possible to make a window?

Of course you can make a window.

Making it semi-transparent is the hard part.

Currently in the texture layers, we only have support for on/off Aplha-Test transparency, which means a section that is set to be transparent is either fully invisible, or completely solid.

There is supposed to be a workaround for doing transparency like what glass would need, but its done with LUA and can be a bit tricky to make it work properly.

MR.D wrote:There is supposed to be a workaround for doing transparency like what glass would need, but its done with LUA and can be a bit tricky to make it work properly.

Yes, it is. but i *can* do it. just not in an easy-to-use manner.

MR.D wrote:
Making it semi-transparent is the hard part.

thats what i mean

The problem with translucenct textures is the order in which polygons are rendered in. They need to be sorted depending on the angle you look at stuff which costs a lot of computing power.


As you can see the glass is transparent and there are red circuits behind it, but it stops half way (this depends on the normal of the face you are looking through I think). That's how it is.

hmmm it doesnt has to be a real window, if it looks like a window, im making a car want to be able to see the driver

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Zsinj's link to that picture of the SWS transport is 404'd..

Was is that one?
http://www.moddb.com/games/5816/star-wa ... r#imagebox

hur hur I can use view image.

yeh, thats what i mean, how did they do that

That's what the primary/secondary skins look like for the windshield on that model. For the exact process, you'll have to wait on an answer from Zsinj. It's not transparent at all, it's an entirely solid piece.

Honestly I just darkened the area where I knew you'd most likely be seeing *something* behind, and then made it highly reflective. As I said in the other thread, it works in some angles, and in angles where it doesn't, you just assume it's part of a natural variation on the glass.

My suggestion is to just draw a fuzzy outline of a person (very fuzzy, use a high gaussian blur, on highly reflective glass. It's not going to work in all situations; you're probably best off going for either 100% transparent glass, or completely opaque but reflective glass.