If you stay inside a building with a glass prim. (25% opacity or so)
I noticed that sansar is not render the buildings outside. The transparency seems to work from some light angles you see there's glass.
It's only not good that the buildings you look at from inside true the glass are not visible or get removed from the view.
Now i can remove the glass complete. And possible do that for now. But i don't know if this a know problem.
Hi Richardus,
As far as I believe they still haven't implemented opacity. There's opacity masking, meaning you're either 100% visible, or 100% not visible. The masking shader will still pick up any grey tones along the range, but it seems to crush them to a solid lack or white.
That should be the case, unless there was an update that I'm not aware of.
there is a general issue with transparencies in all kind of game engine.. even render engine. There is either a 100% transparency as mentioned before or a grayscale transparency which then could have issues blending over other surfaces with partial transparency. Some smart shaders blend between these two transparency types and if its really smart, it even looks good in the end XD The translucent shader which we got now is like kind of full transparent, but overblends a color with the background. What you mean about rendering from outside is also a general thing about game engines.. if there is not a shader that doubles surfaces on its own, surfaces are just rendered from one direction (the direction the normal points to. So if you want the lights from outside not to shine through, you need to build a shell for your room.
"Where's my hammer..., I need to break a few windows" :)
For now i remove the glass material faces complete. Easy job because it's a separate material.
Now don't throw paper planes inside :)
Do we still not have the ability to have partial transparency on glass like objects? A test upload of a 25% transparency windows object just now was still solid looking when placed in a scene, unless I am exporting the FBX wrongly (from 3D Studio Max 2018).
you can use the translucent shader to color the background, but not really partical transparent.. everything that is white will be invisible and everything above white will color the background. the darker the color the less you can see through
and it doesnt refract and it doesnt relfect light XD