[sldev] Skins, alpha layer.

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-05-21, at 16:57, Jacek Antonelli wrote:
> Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure this would require a significant change
> to the rendering pipeline, so it's not a light undertaking. Rendering
> solid/opaque objects and rendering partially transparent objects are
> two different beasts.

I don't think there would be any need to render the avatar partially  
transparent. In fact it would be acceptable to simply cull the mesh  
completely in the areas that are 100% transparent, and ignore the  
layer otherwise. This would be like "disabling rendering the avatar  
mesh" but only for the limbs or portions thereof that are being hidden.