Questions tagged [transparency]

Any part of an object or graphic that light does not fully reflect off of, and thus can be seen through. Also applies to translucency effects.

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What is the order-less rendering technique that allows partial transparency?

I've seen somewhere rendering technique that allows order-less rendering of partially transparent sprites/objects. Though I can't remember what the technique is called, so I'm having trouble Googling ...
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Can I clip a collection of geometry to render only inside a particular worldspace volume?

I am making a VR app in Unity. I have a giant map that I want to display on a virtual table. The map is too large to fit on the table, and I cannot change its size. (It is a third party asset, and ...
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Fade in rendering mode doesn't work as intended

The picture shows an object made out of one model. The object works as intended when rendering with opaque rendering mode, but I want the object to fade in/out during animation. The glitch seems to ...
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Alpha Blending: use the pixel with the smallest alpha

I'm writing a transparency shader where I need any intersecting textures to, wherever they overlap, take the texture pixel with the smallest alpha value and render only that, discarding the other ...
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How to render a texture partly transparent?

Good Morning StackOverflow, I'm having a bit of a problem right now as I can't seem to find a way to render part of a texture transparently with openGL. Here is my setting : I have a quad, ...
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How can glass breaking effect from Smash Hit be achieved? [duplicate]

I saw Smash Hit the other day and was amazed by the physics of the game, specially the shattered glass effect: I've read other posts about this subject but I still feel that they don't share enough ...
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Why do my sprites have a dark shadow/line/frame surrounding the texture?

I'm starting OpenGL with Apple's GLKit hand I'm having some trouble to get my sprites displayed properly. The Problem is that they all are surrounded with thin dark lines. The screen shot below shows ...
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When should I use color keying vs PNG transparency?

SDL (and other toolkits) can use color keying to make a certain color in an image transparent. Alternatively, you could load a PNG image that supports transparency. When should I use which?
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Make some black pixels transparent in Love2D

Is it possible to put a black opaque rectangle over my game screen and then change transparency on some pixels? For example I have black rectangle on screen represented by 1 ...
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How to make the background of an OpenGL object transparent? [closed]

It sounds so simple but i didn't get it to work. The Background of my FrameLayout where i add the GLSurfaceView in is colored blue but there is only black. So here is my method to initiate the ...
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fast java2d translucency

I'm trying to draw a bunch of translucent circles on a Swing JComponent. This isn't exactly fast, and I was wondering if there is a way to speed it up. My custom JComponent has the following ...
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Keyframing or programmatically changing attachment transparency in Spine

I've just recently been getting to grips with Spine and Unity 2D, porting some of my assets from different sources (SWFs, SVGs, GIFs, Canvas animations). Whilst I'm able to reproduce a lot of what I ...
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Rendering a model with transparent or translucent uv map applied doesn't work

Before I try to make anything transparent, the model renders nicely. When I change the uv layout so that one piece of the model will be transparent, it renders horribly. This is the result with a ...
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