Draw order, get mesh to draw in front of everything.[SOLVED]

I've been trying to use the material editor to get an axes model to draw in front of everything else (like the light axes helper in Ofusions viewport in max).

I can get it to work in ofusion viewports, but when I load the axes osm into my app, the other meshes that the axes is assigned to when mouse selected are still sorting with it and obstruct the axes mesh.

(I'm basicly trying to make a transform gizmo for my editor)

I think add "depth_func always_pass" to the material pass, or edit into your oFusion Pass, or your actual .material file for the 'gizmo.'

Is the axes material loaded correctly?

Post the material used

Here's a pic,

top left is the regular max shaded viewport

top right is the gizmo in our app

main, is the ofusion rendering



And here's the material being used.

material Green
{
technique
{
pass
{
ambient 0 1 0 1
diffuse 0 1 0 1
specular 0 1 0 1 0
emissive 0 1 0 1
depth_func always_pass
}

}

}

The other materials are the same just with different color values.

depth_check off

depth_check off

Hmph, that didn't work either. I'm starting to think that there may be a problem on the coding side and how FLOW is the integrating scene loader and scene management.

Review that the axis in the same RenderQueueGroup as the rest of the objects, or in a higher render queue group (to render it after the other objects)

Our C++ coder is investigating it further and seems convinced that its an ofusion problem, but is trying to pinpoint the problem before asking any further questions.

One thing I just discovered is that the axes are drawing correctly when I enable shadows in one of our apps. At the moment they are additive stencil shadows.


Shadows turned off and it no longer gets drawn in front.

Then the issue probably is in your application

Are all the geometry in the same render queue group?

Do a test, load a portion of your geometry and the axis mesh in a simple application (load the objects and render with default scene settings) and see if the results are similar

Well, got it working finaly

We wrapped render queue controls into flow, and got it working with a little help there. depth_func always_pass then started working.

Here's a quick screenie from the OSM world editor app were working on.



It loads Multiple OSM and mesh files and saves out new .OSM scene files. Only been working on it the past week, basing it on how 3dsmax works with simple heirarchy linking, Shift clone/instancing. It's coming along nicely Havent linked up the UI yet, incase your wondering.

We will release a free binary version for the ogre community on FLOW's release, and the FLOW ogre wrapper for Blitzmax will include the full .BMX source code for the editor. (not the C++ code)

That editor looks excellent, im sure it will be very useful. Great job