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[Cleverlie]

hi ASE guys, is there a way we can add a depth pre pass to make transparent objects render correctly?

this is exactly what I mean:

Transparent Depth Shader (good for ghosts!)

So one of the things you will encounter when rendering complex meshs’ using standard transparent rendering is that they depth test against the scene, but not against themselves. This is a limitation of how depth tested rendering works and there are some ways to work around this issue. I’m going to talk about one of them, then show you how to do it in Unity. So lets start by rendering a scene that has some complex geometry (in this context I am using complex to refer to geometry where there are …

taken from that post:

So what is the root issue? When this shader is executed there is nothing in the z-buffer to indicate which pixel is on top. So what we need to do is prime the z-buffer with real depth values. This needs to be done JUST before the transparent object is rendered so that ordering and stacking of transparent objects works properly.

The easiest way to do this is to add an extra pass to the surface shader. A little secret when it comes to surface shaders is that you can insert your own passes, either before or after the main surface shader block. They will just be executed as part of the rendering pipeline.

thanks!