Why not:
a. texture a large plane with a circular alpha channel hole
b. model a large plane with a circular hole.
I'll give that a try, I think i'll need some more flexibility since i need to have other polygons in the same patch... but maybe i can solve it in a different way...
Both would be a mask that show through what is rendered behind them,
should be very fast, but not as flexible, as your ideas.
Being fast is definitely going to be a requirement.
Now, in this context, is flexibility a synonym for madness? or more precisely, is this approach too slow?
best,
J
.b.
Jaime Oliver wrote:
> Hello all, I am trying to do something which should be fairly easy: I am
> trying to see a circle that let's through an image that is behind it.
> (As if through a telescope...) So my attempt so far consists of
> texturing this image into a circle and compensate changes in translation
> and size of the circle with the pix_coordinate object. I have managed to
> do this with rectangles and triangles, but can't a find a way around
> circles. The main idea is the next:
>
> pix_image
> |
> pix_texture coordinate-mess
> | /
> pix_coordinate
> |
> rotateXYZ
> |
> translateXYZ
> |
> circle
>
> The coordinate message has this behaviour:
> -the 1st two floats don't have any effect.
> -the 3rd one compresses/expands left-right,
> -the 4th one compresses/expands up-down,
> -the 5th doesn't do anything,
> -the 6th one seems to offest the vertical compression/expanssion
> -any succesive floats have no effect.
>
> So my problem is that without any horixontal offest i can't compensate
> for size/transaltion values. If i had that i think i could do some math
> to do this....
>
> Anyone has any suggestions? Is this the wrong approach??
>
> I am attaching the patch if anyone want's to test this and I am also
> attaching an example of how i am compensating this for a polygon 3
>
> best,
>
> J
>
>
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