Ah! hehe, I thought you meant over distance. I have not "faded out" a
polygon over time. This is what I would try: do not make the polygon
transparent, instead modulate a completely opaque texture on your polygon.
Since we are modulating, changes to the colors of the polygon should mixed
with the texture....I'm guessing you could change the materials and adjust
their alpha componant? Or adjust the vertex colors (with the geometry
update callback) to smoothly update thier vertex alphas? Or possibly use a
referenced texture (and on a transparent polygon) and update the alphas
across your texture (using a graphics handle you can draw() on).
Can't think of anything else to try. The easiest thing would be to just
adjust the polygon transparency attributes, but like you said, that doesn't
work when you have a alpha blended texure.... this is probably because
adjusting the transparency attributes of a polygon is probably just
adjusting the vertex alphas, and since you are blending and not modulating
you don't get the effect.
Dave
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> From: J. Lee Dixon[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:58 AM
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> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Fade-out of transparency textured polygons
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> I mentioned that my polygon was already fully transparent to support the
> alpha channel texture. The alpha component of the polygon does not seem
> to affect the transparency of the texture when the texture has an alpha
> channel.
>
> I guess I could also be more specific. When I say "fade-out", I mean
> fade over *time*, not over distance.
>
> -Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yazel, David J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:16 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Fade-out of transparency textured polygons
>
>
> Hmmm,
>
> Two ways:
>
> 1) Interesting way but probably not what you want is to set the color of
> the
> vertex to include an alpha component and fade across your vertices,
> using
> modulate with the texture. I know this works in opengl, I assume it
> does in
> Java3d.
>
> 2) The next way is to use a transparent polygon, and blend a texture in
> which has an ever increasing (decreasing?) alpha, this is the technique
> I
> use to make a terrain transition, I overlay two meshes and fade one out.
>
> Dave
>
> > ----------
> > From: J. Lee Dixon[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 8:42 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [JAVA3D] Fade-out of transparency textured polygons
> >
> > A while back I fought with the settings to make transparency textures
> > work. I could easily place the texture on the polygon, but the places
> > where the alpha value of the texture was 0, it showed the color of the
> > polygon. It didn't make sense to me that I could see the underlying
> > polygon at all.
> >
> > I fixed the problem by setting the TransparencyAttributes to be
> totally
> > transparent. Fine.
> >
> > Now, how do I make the whole object fade out?? Normally, I would fade
> > using the TransparencyAttributes, but it is already set to totally
> > transparent.
> >
> > I thought applying a texture with alpha set to 0 would make the
> polygon
> > invisible; I shouldn't have to set the poly transparency as well...
> >
> > -Lee
> >
> > J. Lee Dixon
> > Software Engineer
> > SAIC - Celebration, FL
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