[vtkusers] Transparent Renderer

[Tim Hutton]

At 11:18 20/07/00 -0400, Patrick Lagace wrote:
>> Hi,
>>      Is there a way to create a transparent renderer ? What I need to do is
>> to create 2 or more renderers, one is main renderer and all others on top
>> of it and their background are transparent.
>>      Thank you in advance!
>
>I don't think vtkRenderer gives directly the the possibility to do that
(it may be an
>interesting new feature for VTK? 

Just to add my two centimes, I think this would be nice to have in VTK. I
ideally need to be able to render onto my own background image, not just
another VTK renderer.

Cheers,

Tim.
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