Making Planet Transparent

Discussion in 'Mod Discussions' started by tatsujb, September 25, 2015.

  1. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    How doable would this be?

    Been thinking about ways to improve the map awareness situation. I know this may be confusing to look at for some but I think I'd personally love it. It would be tolgleable of course and with a configurable transparency level.
  2. crizmess

    crizmess Well-Known Member

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    This isn't a modding thing sadly. Units on the opposite side of the planet, don't reach the rendering stage, and rasterizing transparent objects needs special care, because unlike non-transparent objects the order in which they are drawn on the screen is relevant.

    But ... as far as I know icons are culled in the vertex shader (particle_icon.vs). I'm not sure if icons are sorted in the correct z-order, but someone may want to toy around with that.
  3. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    yeah it's doable right?

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