StaticGeometry and Transparencies Work-Around?

Hi everybody.

We're currently working on a game where the player has to run along a long path. The scenes are mostly static and built with repeating segments that are concatenated.

After having the first noticable performance drops, I now generate a StaticGeometry using the following lines:


StaticGeometry sGeo = Renderer.Instance.SceneManager.CreateStaticGeometry("level");
sGeo.AddSceneNode(staticLevelNode);
sGeo.CastShadows = true;
sGeo.Build();


Obviously, that makes a big difference. The framerate is far better now. But now I got a new problem: Transparency sorting. We got lots of trees that have transparent textures, but unfortuantely, StaticGeometry doesn't do any depth sorting (as far as I can see and as far as I can read: http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 96&start=0).

So, the question is: What shall I do?

I thought about traversing the scene graph, pulling out all nodes with transparent materials and put them in a new branch before building the static geometry - do you think this is reasonable? What's the Ogre way of solving problems like that?

In case that makes any difference: I'm using Mogre V1.4.8 on Windows XP.

Thanks,
Dominik

Hi Dominik,

This is not specific to Mogre, you should post to the main forums.
The Ogre way is (mostly) the Mogre way

Hi Bekas.

Thanks for the hint. I apologize. Good excuse: I'm new here...

I'll post this to the Ogre forum.

Thanks,
Dominik