Trees not writing anything to the depth buffer?

While playing earlier I noticed that trees were not being rendered correctly; my guess, as stated in the title is that the trees are not writing any depth values, which is why some of the trees are rendered in front of others when they shoulden't be.

Anyway, here am some shots:






Thanks

 

As far as i know its only on cyclopean

 

it's also on streets of fire, it's real annoying on that map becuase sometime you can see the enemy coming but can't tell how away they are

 

This one is the engine's fault, and should be fixed in the OB move.

 

it had to do with the alpha channels right?

 

This problem is probably to do with trees not writing to the depth buffer, alpha is not involved.

 

The alpha channels cause the depth buffer issue, and the depth buffer is in the engine (i.e. not available to modders) so we have to find a workaround. This is a known issue anyway.

 

Actually, those are ghost trees. A big part of the Empires universe is the

/Lobster makes spooky noises

HAAAAUUNTED FORESSSSSTS

 

Is dat sum fixed tree?

 

i think the depth only involves the tree cluster entities, and not the single ones.

if someone else wants to confirm this, please do

 

workaround is to add $alphatest 1 to the VMT.

This should be posted on mantis or whatever as a reminder.