Make part of terrain transparent.

Questions & Answers
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So here’s a view of my camera (some kind of ortographic perspective).

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And if i move character , the mountain hovers it and it can’t be seen.
Here’s example and part i want to make transparent.

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My questions are :

  1. Whenever my character becomes invisible due to terrain blocking it vision , how do i catch the part of terrain that has something(plain terrain) after it (so when i make it transparent i won’t see skybox)?

  2. Once i have this part of terrain in list/array how do i make transparent ?

  3. Same effect but when in builiding , easier to do ?

If it’s impossible to do that due to my beginner skills , are there any other way to make player visible and part of plain terrain so he will know where he can walk(without rotating camera)?

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Too bad there isn’t a response yet.

But I did some thinking, and have you heard about the near- and farclipping settings of a camera?

for example:

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and now a bigger value for the near clipping will cut off any object in that distance:

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And if that doesn’t do what you wanted, you can tweak it with a script:

perhaps cast a raycast to your character, and if it doesn’t hit the character, add more near clipping, untill it does… Just an idea :slight_smile:

Aaaaand if that didn’t helped, you could try a custom shader to always show the player (maybe with a slight transparant tint) trough walls:

cast a raycast to player, if it didn’t hit him, change material to the always on top - transparant - ish shader…

Hope this helps