sprite rendering order

[sipi]

Is there a way to somehow set up an order for Mantra to render each grid covering the other?

Creating a rendering order for example based on ptnum?

Or something like this is not possible?

sprite_rendering_order.hiplc

 

I'd like to achieve this, see how the grids cover each other, no intersection:

(this was made with COPs, just for demonstration)

[Librarian]

Try this to manipulate! @sipi

 

UVless.hipnc

[sipi]

57 minutes ago, Librarian said:

Try this to manipulate! @sipi

 

UVless.hipnc 565.51 kB · 1 download

Hi @Librarian, thank you for the reply! However I'm not sure if you're getting my question right, or I'm getting your hipfile wrong. Because I don't see how would this help for the situation i described. Could you elaborate on what you're suggesting with the hipfile? As far as I see, this is texture projecting onto a geo.

On the first picture i posted there are grids copied onto points. I would like to render them covering each other to prevent intersections. I'm thinking if it can be achieved with some kind of ray manipulating trick at render time...?

Edited Friday at 05:51 AM by sipi

[Librarian]

@sipiTry this!

 

[sipi]

50 minutes ago, Librarian said:

@sipiTry this!

 

@Librarian I'm not sure if I interpreted correctly the setup, but I built a hip based on the picture. I'm not fully understand what's happening here, but it seems to be an interesting way to deintersect the grids, thank you for that.

librarian_grids.hiplc

However. In my case i specifically don't want to change the position of the grids. That's a limitation for me. That's why I'm thinking about doing something in rendertime. But i don't have any idea what...

Edited Friday at 07:14 AM by sipi