Can the iphone render the transparent diffuse shader?

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1

I want to make a semi transparent mesh, if I put the transparent diffuse shader, will that render correct on the iphone?

2

Yes but you will see the insides of the mesh if you do that, to fix that theres another shader on the wiki that stops you form seeing the inside I use it and its great, here it is.

Shader "Transparent/VertexLit with Z" {
Properties {
    _Color ("Main Color", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
    _MainTex ("Base (RGB) Trans (A)", 2D) = "white" {}
}

SubShader {
    Tags {"RenderType"="Transparent" "Queue"="Transparent"}
    // Render into depth buffer only
    Pass {
        ColorMask 0
    }
    // Render normally
    Pass {
        ZWrite Off
        Blend SrcAlpha OneMinusSrcAlpha
        ColorMask RGB
        Material {
            Diffuse [_Color]
            Ambient [_Color]
        }
        Lighting On
        SetTexture [_MainTex] {
            Combine texture * primary DOUBLE, texture * primary
        } 
    }
}
}
3

its an expensive shader.

4

Hmm I see, then I should leave semi transparent things to later stages, when I can do tests.

One question, what about adding gui on the scene? Don’t I need the transparent shader to do that?

5

pretty surely you will unless you do it all in ragespline or with pure meshes that only contain geometry where textures are

6

for transparency ie png style images, use the mobile/particles/alpha shader. It’s fast and flexible.

If you need to make things 2 sided in a shader, duplicate the shader, rename it in the shader and filename, and add Cull Off etc. Generally fiddling like that is best, and easy.