Can you please send your .blend?

Well, everything here can be done with planes and math :)

First - billboard plane or a sphere like I showed you earlier (something about spheres inside spheres), second - animated billboard planes, third - sphere and/or plane billboard, too :) Just play with masks and colors

Hello!
This node works like color ramp - it helps to control the blur to make it more "harder" or "softer" and to adjust border. Width represents the "powes of blur" and center represents the border where this blur will start. Documentation on Blender Wiki

But this node is somewhat heavy, so I recommend to try our special nodegroup SmoothStep - it works a little different, but is faster when it comes to performance. Here is documentation to it.

I made an example of different usage of those nodes :)



squeeze_val_smoothstep_ex.blend
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Here you go

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Well, it's actually the goal - to minimize and eliminate things like these
Yeah, I know "00, 01, …" Sometimes it turns into a mess x)

Hm.. If nothing can be restored - from my practice I can suppose that it was a problem in scene settings. Don't know where exactly

It's great! Congrats

Blender functional is very various, and sometimes it's hard to navigate through it. Right now making our engine with minimal "buttons and stuff" is, like, "an ideal" - because for this we need tight cooperation with Blender team - just addons aren't allowed to change or remove some native functional, you know :) So sadly can't tell about dates - but it's one of our main goals, after all

Hmm.. Can you please send your file then? I'll try to find what's wrong

UPD

It's good that it's solved, but it's kinda bad thing anyway. If you can, send please "bad" file

Oh, yeah. Transparent materials don't cast shadows (except alpha clip), so the best decision is to add another object without material on the place of this transparent with "cast only" function (shadows -> cast -> cast only)

The shadows must be turned on in object settings, so the objects that will receive that shadows must be specified too.

Dynamical reflections works only on flat surfaces like water or mirror, and how to fake it I wrote here :) Read through that topic, there are examples and explanation.

P.S. - I recommend to mix all the diffuse colors before material node, because, for example, the lower texture in your example will be shadeless (shading, emission, specular and such things are calculated in material node)

Hello davdup!

How do you want the text to be displayed? I mean, the simpliest solution is to parent text to the camera It is simple and it works

If you need complex scene with many billboards that needs to be near objects, then now it can only be done by converting to mesh right now text implementation is still very "fresh" to our engine, so some situations like this can pop up.

But our programmers said they'll try to fix this issue in the next release (or maybe sooner)

Well, this is an interesting question. I tried some things, so look through those material setups - maybe you'll find something that will fit :)

The main problem is that we can't use raytracing algorithms in realtime rendering - so there are some things that must be sacrificed. Well, yeah, there actually are scenes with raytracing in webGL, but right now they are very heavy for computers.

Our refraction works like this: we render all the opaque objects behind the refractive object and then distort this render by factor that node Refraction contains. But the problem is - if we need to render several blend objects, we need to render all scene every time we use refraction. So in this example we needed to render the scene… 18 times! I don't think it could be fast enough x)
So other transparent objects will be "eaten" by the first refractive object.

But I found some sort of a hack - look, the parts where refraction can actually be seen are bevels - so I made only them refractive. I am talking about third example (first one contains only refraction, second one refraction+some matcap, third one is refraction only on bevels+matcap)



The trick is here: I made an ordinary transparent material and copied bevels. Those bevels I separated to another object and made them refractive - on the screenshot I moved this bevel to demonstrate it. And it actually somehow works! Look:



Hope it will help


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