Is billboard + depth supported?

[Mugen87]

@byun

with a depth attribute at each pixel

It’s probably more correct to say that you want a depth texture in the fragment shader so you can sample the depth of the scene. Unfortunately, this is not supported with the default materials. Ideally, you render the scene and save the depth information into a texture. A second render pass draws the particles and blends them onto the scene. To do this, you need a custom shader material. The following thread is related to this topic and might be helpful:

Points transparent textures depth artifacts (soft particles)

Hello I’ve been playing around with fog effect, using THREE.Points with some transparent smoke textures. First problem came up when the fully transparent edges of the images would clip weirdly: [image] From this stack overflow thread javascript - Three.js - depthWrite vs depthTest for transparent canvas texture map on THREE.Points - Stack Overflow , I found out, that its due to depth testing. I set the material’s depthTest to false. It looked great, exactly like i wanted, but …