rendering queue in DirectX9

Original Post

Feb 27, 2009 at 1:48 AM

There are four object types in my scene. My rendering queue is showed as below: 1.shadow+opaque 2.shadow+transparency 3.no shadow+opaque 4.no shadow+transparency Is the queue right?

SiS-Shadowman

Feb 27, 2009 at 2:19 AM

I'm not totally sure, but shouldn't ALL opaque objects being rendered before the transparent ones, independent of shadowing?

The way you do it now, the transparent-shadowed objects will not show the opaque non-shadowed ones (if the opaque ones are positioned behind).

FeverGames

Feb 27, 2009 at 4:44 AM

yes as far as I know you should render all your opaque items first and then render the non opaque items without Z write enabled. This way the transparant objects will not write to the Z buffer and be able to be seen behind each other. This requires you to render all none opaque objects in back to front order btw.

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