playcanvas / playcanvas/engine

Weighted Blended Order Independent Transparency

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Description

This is a feature request to add an order independent transparency option:

Weighted Blended Order Independent Transparency by NVidia:
https://www.jcgt.org/published/0002/02/09/paper.pdf

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the linked Weighted Blended Order Independent Transparency paper and reviewing the existing rendering and transparency implementation in the engine. Define how the requested option should be exposed and validated; done means the engine supports the requested order-independent transparency behavior shown in the issue.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
computer-graphics
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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