solved Disable Render Targets and clear frame

[gamefan]

Hi,

I find renderTargetsOptimization very helpful. Is there a way a renderTarget frame can be cleared so that the last frame before render targets are disabled doesn't stay?

I can set ReflectionTextureEnabled = false, but I want to have reflection textures that don't use render targets.

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#1YAIO7#37

In this playground I have disabled render targets after 3 seconds but the ball reflection remains static

Thanks

[Guest]

You can set each render target with the refresh rate you want:

probe.refreshRate = BABYLON.RenderTargetTexture.REFRESHRATE_RENDER_ONCE;

probe.refreshRate = BABYLON.RenderTargetTexture.REFRESHRATE_RENDER_ONEVERYFRAME;

probe.refreshRate = BABYLON.RenderTargetTexture.REFRESHRATE_RENDER_ONEVERYTWOFRAMES; 

[gamefan]

Hi Deltakosh,

Thank you for your reply but this is not what I want. I want the render targets textures to disappear after renderTargets optimization is done. The scene looks awkward when the render target textures just stay there at their last rendered frame. It looks awkward even for renders at intermittent frames with the use of refreshRate.

I want a result similar to what "StandardMaterial.ReflectionTextureEnabled = false" does.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

So is that custom render targets? Which render targets are we talking about?

[gamefan]

Reflections made by MirrorTexture and ReflectionProbe. We want something like what

material.reflectionTexture = null

would do. (As disabling render targets won't update the reflection texture in the next render frames)

StandardMaterial.ReflectionTexturesEnabled = false 

is the right thing to do but I don't want to disable reflection textures that aren't using render targets.

I think scene.renderTargetsEnabled should render/hide the render target texture. What affect this has now is equivalent to (an imaginary) scene.pauseRenderTargets.

Edited June 5, 2018 by gamefan
After Thought

[Guest]

Ok make sense. I'm afraid you will have to go through scene.materials and get reflectionTexture property and then test if texture.isRender is true

[gamefan]

Man!! I was afraid of this ?. Any chances this will be incorporated in a future release?

 

[Guest]

That's kind of a really specific need no?

[gamefan]

My head says no, but it probably is ?.
I am fine with your solution but wonder why no one else came across this?  ?

[Guest]

well..Perhaps more will and in this case we will probably add it in the engine