How to use Blend to make a polygon transparent?

Question

I have a app that shows two polygons. I need to make progressively invisible one of the polygons, but the other must be visible. Im working with OpenGL ES 1.1. I\'m developi

Answer 1

Looks like the right blend functions there, call them before drawing your translucent polygon. The alpha value is typically supplied with the color or texturemap (Red, Green, Blue, Alpha), and the range for alpha is 0.0 (transparent) to 1.0 (opaque) given the blending function above.

Also note that translucent objects are sensitive to render order: Typically you must draw all your opaque objects first, using the depth buffer as normal. Then, turn on blending and set the depth buffer to read-only, and draw your translucent objects back-to-front (draw the farthest from the camera first). This way the fragment blending happens farthest-to-nearest.