Status of 3D blending when diffuse component has alpha

[Chien Yang]

In 8u60, we made 3D Node to use the same default blendMode property 
setting of Node; i.e. SRC_OVER:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/Node.html#blendModeProperty

This default blend mode should address most of the transparency 
rendering requested in [1] and [2]. Our tentative plan is to add a 
proper blending equation support for 3D in 9.

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8090548
[2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8097241

- Chien


On 7/8/15 2:37 PM, Herve Girod wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just remarked that there was lot of activity recently (May 2015) on this
> feature. What's the current state, and when will it be "completely" handled
> in JDK 9?
>
> We are currently adding 3D to a Java ARINC 661 Server, and ideally we would
> like to have part of 3D alpha blending working before the end of this year.
> I knwo that there is a workaround using superposed scenes, but maybe there
> will be a simpler way to handle this before long?
>
> Regards,
>
> Hervé