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Support => Terragen Support => Topic started by: WAS on August 25, 2018, 05:06:35 PM

Title: Card vs Disc
Post by: WAS on August 25, 2018, 05:06:35 PM
With a card you're able to do semi-transparency with the glass shader, but with a disc, which allows spherical projections, you can't. Why is this? Can the ability be added to discs?
Title: Re: Card vs Disc
Post by: Matt on August 26, 2018, 01:03:39 PM
The disc is rendered with the micropolygon rasterizer which has some differences from the ray tracer. You should be able to do spherical projection on a card simply by changing the texture space to world space with a transform shader.
Title: Re: Card vs Disc
Post by: WAS on August 26, 2018, 07:19:02 PM
Quote from: Matt on August 26, 2018, 01:03:39 PM
... You should be able to do spherical projection on a card simply by changing the texture space to world space with a transform shader.

Oooh, fancy. Didn't think of that. Thanks Matt.