I would like to create a reflection on the ground. The reflection would only have the meshes not decorative data such as world origin.
I have tried to use THREE.Reflector but its reflects everything on the scene.
Thanks for your help.
You can achieve this with a simple modification of Reflector. The idea is to use THREE.Layers in order to control which objects are visible on the reflective surface.
Reflector has an internal virtual camera for rendering. Enable layer 1 and disable layer 0 of this camera.
virtualCamera.layers.disable( 0 );
virtualCamera.layers.enable( 1) ;
Define in your scene which objects should be visible for the mirror by enabling the respective layer (layer 0 is enabled by default).
object.layers.enable( 1 );
Full demo: https://jsfiddle.net/f2Lommf5/9537/
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I would like to preface this by saying I am still quite new to gameMakerstudio and I do not know all there is to know about how the software works and this is probably the root cause of my problem as I do not know why I am having this current layering issue.
I have been having an issue where I have TWO DrawGUI events in separate objects within the same room.
The first object is a Fog Of War that draws a GUI and reveals the map as the player moves, and keeps explored places visible but not in view.
The second object is the joystick where a player will use their thumb to drag the stick to move the player.
Ever since I have implemented the Fog of War. I have been unable to view the joystick. It appears that the fog of war draws overtop of it and I am unable to use it.
I understand there are other draw events where I can do this.
Draw
Draw GUI
Draw Begin
Draw End
Draw GUI BEGIN
Draw GUI END
After changing where I have the code drawing.
Example: At first the joystick and the fog were both in Draw GUI, After moving one from Draw GUI to Draw GUI Begin, the same issue appears.
I have made sure to place the joystick at the top most level in the room and the fog of war at the bottom most layer.
I have tried to apply depth the object
oJoystick_Stick.depth = -100;
this does not achieve anything.
Is there another way to force two objects on the GUI layer to be on top of the other?
To my understanding, DrawGUI always prioritises the objects drawn there above anything in Draw, including Begin Draw and End Draw. This is because DrawGUI is for an interface (like the stats you see about your character like health, ammo ect.), and objects drawn there aren't part of the room itself. You may also have noticed that the objects drawn in DrawGUI also follows the camera/Viewpoint.
So, to clear up the draw priority:
First is the DrawGUI layer that places objects in front of everything, like an interface.
After that, the depth variable and layers inside the room has priority, each layer has also given a depth value, with an interval of 100.
If the depth is also the same (for example when they're in the same layer), then the order of the objects and code loaded decides the order drawn.
The latter is not always reliable when multiple objects are overlapping at the same depth, because if the objects are redrawn in-game again (e.g. a persistent object been loaded into a new room, or pause and unpause using instance_activate_all), then the order of objects drawn may differ. Keep in mind when overlapping objects, that they are placed in different layers to prevent mixed priorities.
I've however not used a Fog of War system myself, so I don't know if it's build-in or not, but I wouldn't recommend placing them in the DrawGUI, as that should be reserved for the interface layout. With the default Draw options, you'll have more flexibility to the layers inside the room.
Some advice about DrawGUI
DrawGUI Begin --> call the event before every drawGUI in that moment
DrawGUI --------> the event is called sync with the screen refresh rate
DrawGUI End ----> call the event after every drawGUI in that moment
so GM-Studio "pipeline" for the DrawGUI is like the step event, we have a BEGIN, a CURRENT, an END.
To prioritize the object render, GM-Studio use the depth in-build variabile. Take the 0 as the reference value. Object with depth value > 0 are rendering as last. Object with depth value < 0 are rendering infront everything.
Check the depth during the calling of the instance_create_depth() function, check where the depth variabile is changing, check in the room editor for each instance layer the depth value. and z-order.
How to get access to custom canvas group shader? I need to desaturate all child of game object situated on canvas. Something like canvas group component that provide possibility to change alpha of all child objets.
Unity might be using a more elegant solution by hiding their implementation of setting the alpha via the CanvasGroup component in their C++ part of the engine.
For now it looks like there is no other way than to set the material property on all UI elements (UnityEngine.UI.Graphic) with a custom material.
Remember, you can download the official shader source files. ;) There's a default UI shader, which you need to modify to add additional color functionality.
This, and this mentioned rederOrder, but it is undocumented. I set up a jsfiddle and it does not work, what is wrong?
http://jsfiddle.net/q4w56/y655cwqt/5/
// now mesh1 should be always on top of mesh2
mesh1.renderOrder = 1
mesh2.renderOrder = 0
Setting renderOrder in three.js does not cause a renderable object to be "on top". It just controls the rendering order. It can be a useful tool if some objects are transparent. If all objects in the scene are opaque, changing the rendering order will (in typical use cases) have no effect on the rendered output.
See this answer if you want some objects to render "on top".
three.js r.79
I am using THREE.js via this - https://github.com/ubilabs/google-maps-api-threejs-layer and I would like to implement custom logic for switching LODs. The main reason is that distance from camera is still the same but camera have scale set based on zoom level of map. I would like to switch LOD based on zoom level. I am trying to figure out how to "hack" LOD logic so I could pass own function which will be called by THREE.js and will return which LOD to use.
Please can you give me some hints how to implement this in the way as clean as possible?
I’m using three.js inside an experimental augmented-reality web browser. (The browser is called Argon. Essentially, Argon uses Qualcomm’s Vuforia AR SDK to track images and objects in the phone camera. Argon sends the tracking information into Javascript, where it uses transparent web pages with three.js to create 3D graphics on top of the phone video feed.) My question is about three.js, however.
The data Argon sends into the web page allows me to align the 3D camera with the physical phone camera and draw 3D graphics such that they appear to align with the real world as expected. I would also like to have some of the things in the physical world occlude the 3D graphics (I have 3D models of the physical objects, because I’ve set the scene up or because they are prepared objects like boxes that are being tracked by Vuforia).
I’m wondering if folks have suggestions on the best way to accomplish this occlusion with three.js. Thanks.
EDIT: it appears that the next version of three.js (R71) will have a simpler way to do this, so if you can use the dev branch (or just wait), you can do this much more easily. See this post: three.js transparent object occlusion
MY ORIGINAL ANSWER (without using the new features in R71):
I think the best way to do this is (to avoid extra work by creating new rendering passes for example) to modify the WebGL renderer (src/renderers/WebGLRenderer.js) and add support for a new kind of object, perhaps call them “occlusionObjects”.
If you look in the renderer, you will see two current object lists, opaqueObjects and transparentObjects. The renderer sorts the renderable objects into these two lists, so that it can render the opaque objects first, and then the transparent objects after them. What you need to do is store all of your new objects into the occlusionObjects list rather than those two. You will see that the opaque and transparent objects are sorted based on their material properties. I think here, you may want to add a property to an object you want to be an occluder (“myObject.occluder = true”, perhaps), and just pull those objects out.
Once you have the three lists, look what the render() function does with these object lists. You’ll see a couple of places with rendering calls like this:
renderObjects( opaqueObjects, camera, lights, fog, true, material );
Add something like this before that line, to turn off writing into the color buffers, render the occlusion objects into the depth buffer only, and then turn color buffer writes back on before you render the remaining objects.
context.colorMask( false, false, false, false);
renderObjects( occluderObjects, camera, lights, fog, true, material );
context.colorMask(true, true, true, true);
You’ll need to do this in a couple of places, but it should work.
Now you can just mark any objects in your scene as “occluder = true” and they will only render into the depth buffer, allowing the video to show through and occluding any opaque or transparent objects rendered behind them.