Decals: How do they work?

#1

How the heck do they work.

Here’s what I’m doing:

		var prim = new h3d.prim.Cube();
		prim.unindex();
		prim.addNormals();
		prim.addUVs();

		var tex = hxd.Res.tex.select.toTexture();
		var mat = h3d.mat.Material.create(tex);

		var shader = Defaults.makeVolumeDecal( prim.getBounds() );
		mat.mainPass.addShader( shader );

		var obj1 = new Mesh(prim, mat, s3d);

This yields a pretty broken result. If you look at it straight on, it renders a few angle-dependent texels at the source mesh’s height (ie, not projected on the intersecting target). Once you move away from that dead-on angle, the whole thing just vanishes.

I feel like I’m probably doing something very wrong, but can’t find any examples of Decal being used either in the code or online.

#2

Yes this is supposed to work but it seems there was some kind of regression in the standard API. Decals still works (we use them in production) but I have to look exactly what’s wrong with the default setup.