RenderWare PTank question

How come you have a license for Renderware without the corresponding NDA forbidding you to ask such questions on public forums :-) ?

1. the words "bubble" and "sort" should never be seen on the internet unless when describing what shouldn''t be seen on the internet. use radix or quicksort.

2. if you cant turn of depth-writing (i still cant work out how it would ruin the effect) then remember to sort using the distance squared (i.e. cut out that nasty square root).

3. camera rotations shouldn''t affect your particles what so ever. as you as you''re using billboarding they should always be displayed correctly.

4. somewhere along the like you''re alpha channel is getting screwed (probably on the vertex level, not texture).

could u post a screenie of this effect to see why depth writes can''t be turned off?

I am a Game Design Student at Full Sail.. Full sail recived a license for their students to use RenderWare... however the students do not get access to RenderWare forums for asking questions ect.. I havent been informed of any such NDA at fullsail... Any how


I have somewhat figured the problem out... I am able to have the particles rendering correctly for almost all occurances however i still find problems here and there. I am working atm with our lead Engine programmer to figure out if the problem I am encountering has to do with how the camera is rotating on the world or what effects this is having on the effects. There is alot of things we need to learn about RW it seems, and unfortunatly we dont have access to their boards to access some good info =)

Thanks for the Help folks.... Ill post some ScreenShots of the problems...


Ok Turning Z testing off is a problem because, The world is rendered then I render the particles, the particles will blend fine however u will see them through objects in the world which in other circumstances would block the view of said particles


[edited by - Jedite on April 25, 2003 7:13:47 AM]