Keep transparency in material without Translucency?

[peterw1505]

@jwatte

If you need transparency, you should turn on transparency.

EVERYTHING has a performance cost. Your job is not to “avoid all performance costs;” your job is to “use the performance costs you choose, artfully, to deliver a good experience to the player.”

I use transparency all the time for particles. That’s a very common case where it’s useful. You’ll probably want to avoid putting the camera and particle size such that there are 100 full-screen transparent particles, but the fact that some smoke in the distance uses transparency, is not a problem in practice.

Thank you for the heads up, I will keep that in mind.