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Vinggui opened this issue Mar 21, 2025 · 0 comments
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VTK should render transparent materials with glTF #22792

Vinggui opened this issue Mar 21, 2025 · 0 comments
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component: geometry perception How geometry appears in color, depth, and label images (via the RenderEngine API) type: feature request

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Vinggui commented Mar 21, 2025

Hi Drake team,

I have been working on some models in glTF and VTK that contain transparent walls. They can be successfully loaded into Drake, but when rendering with an RGB sensor, they do not show any transparency. Interestingly, the Wavefront model version can have transparency assigned.

Note: Meshcat does render the transparency.

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Models in glTF can represent transparency with alpha values + "alphaMode".

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Maybe glTF can use a more sophisticated KHR extension, allowing better "thin" walls to be rendered

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@jwnimmer-tri jwnimmer-tri added the component: geometry perception How geometry appears in color, depth, and label images (via the RenderEngine API) label Mar 21, 2025
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