Cull occluded geometry in character model | Godot Café | Page 1

round zodiac Apr 25, 2024, 12:46 AM

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I have a semi-transparent player model. I need to cull its occluded faces so you can't see the geometry that is hidden behind front-facing geometry. In blender this is as easy as a box tick (example provided). Does anyone know if this is possible?

last phoenix Apr 25, 2024, 9:50 AM

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Beautiful character! Does this help? https://forum.godotengine.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-non-overlapping-transparency-shader-in-3d/408/2

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How can I create a non-overlapping transparency shader in 3D?

👤 Reply From: enceladus Update: I found a way to get the effect I’m going for using a viewport texture. For anyone who finds this question through their search results, here’s what I did (note that I’m still using Godot 3.5, so this might work a little differently in 4.x, but the same ideas should apply): Add a viewport node as a child of t...

round zodiac Apr 25, 2024, 12:43 PM

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last phoenix Beautiful character! Does this help? https://forum.godotengine.org/t/how-can-i-c...

Thank you! But I can't seem to get this to work, and I don't think it's quite what I'm asking for. If I understand correctly, that method will just draw the model in its entirety transparently on top of the camera's rendering, which is not what I want. I won't be able to use the Fresnel transparency effect if I do that, since it will uniformly affect the model's transparency

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It almost works if I set the Depth Draw to Always, but I get this weird banding effect around my character

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