Gang Chen

I want to make a jit.gl.gridshape cube half transparent so another cube which is inside it can be visible.

Can i achieve this with out a alpha picture? It seems that my Max can't load .png.

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Max can handle transparency, i.a. based on alpha channel from PNG. Remember to set "blend_enable" and "blend" attributes for your rendering pipeline. I have no access to my computer now, but, if you need, I can prepare for you a simple example patch later.

Here's example patch: two cubes booth textured with images, both handling transparency via alpha channel or "color" attribute.

But is there any way that i can see the back side of the cube?

> But is there any way that i can see the back side of the cube?

Yes. Try to set "cull_face" attribute of the [jit.gl.gridshape] object to 0 (off).

small question regarding the patch above (which helped me a lot, a million thanks for sharing!)

the patch works well with cubes and spheres but i do not get it to work if i make the gridshape object a plane (@shape plane).

why is that? and what would i need to change to texture a plane with a texture including transparency?

update: ten seconds after posting i found the problem: for some odd reason it has to do with @layer. if i put the transparent plane on a higher layer it does work as expected...

small question regarding the patch above (which helped me a lot, a million thanks for sharing!)
the patch works well with cubes and spheres but i do not get it to work if i make the gridshape object a plane (@shape plane).
why is that? and what would i need to change to texture a plane with a texture including transparency?

update: ten seconds after posting i found the problem: for some odd reason it has to do with @layer. if i put the transparent plane on a higher layer it does work as expected...
sorry for bothering.


Any way to make a cube half transparent?