Irrlicht Engine

I know EMT_TRANSPARENT_ALPHA_CHANNEL_REF is working for dx9 now and I assume the more-frequently-experienced bug involving OpenGL's zbuffer settings are fixed, but...

I am still having issues with "EMT_TRANSPARENT_ALPHA_CHANNEL" with z-buffer enabled or disabled.

This is with Directx9 not opengl ...

I have a single node that is an arrangement of foliage etc, grass on the floor, tree leaves and a seperate camp fire particle emitter node... Everything is right as far as 32bit loading, culling, etc.
Yet when using zbuffer enabled - transparency occurs yet when overlapped they hide eachother and it looks aweful.
With zbuffer disabled - The overlapped alpha'd parts look nice this time, but you can't have a game without zbuffered elements, it just won't work having everything floating and no depth, so there's a problem



Could anyone confirm that EMT_TRANSPARENT_ALPHA_CHANNEL (not REF!) is working correctly now, post-patch? (...in DX9)

Thank you

PS: This is the first question I'm posting ever, I've actually tried to search for everything I've needed assistance with.
The Irrlicht community is just awesome, imo

Vs.


Below is what it's supposed to look like (achieved via no zbuffer on fire and alpha_ref on foliage)

The above image is what's happening when trying to use alpha without the _ref addition, it's creaing occlusion or whatever the proper term is


Anyone have any ideas? Niko?


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This is what I want to have back

No, sorry. But I will try to find it as soon as I've time for it. I would suggest using Irrlicht 0.10.0 until then, if this is no problem. BTW: you shot looks really cool.

Ok, cool. - An' lol, thanks! BTW: Irrlicht is really cool!

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
- Carl Sagan

Bump,
(... Any news about this? .... )

No, currently I'm a bit stressed, sorry.

That sucks, =/ I'm sorry, that doesn't sound too good.
Hope you are enjoying the summer atleast somewhat, or can for the rest of it!
S'posed to be relaxed etc! =) You're definately allowed to take a vacation, even from working on Irrlicht ; ) hehe.

Hey, I couldn't find a more proper post so Ima' say it here:

Version 12 looks amazing! Way to go, I'm very impressed =)

I'm at work, so I can't test it out, but it sounds like you solved a lot of problems, including my own, heh. The new features look very cool, the shaders support and detail mapping...

I'm sohappy, thank you very much



/applause for Niko!