If view entities are used for such things as first person weapons or sun flares, you can not use post processing effects or the view entities will not be visible. So currently you must choose between having postprocessing effects or view entities.

It would be slightly better if view entities would be rendered on top of the post processing so at least they would be visible.

Ideally, it would be nice to set a flag for each view entity as to whether it will be rendered with the view (post processed) or after postprocessing (no pp effects, but visible).

Thanks for considering my suggestion.

seconed. we've had the same problem and it took ages to find out why the entities weren't showing. very annoying.

If a view entity does not show, check the view parameters, like angle, arc, flags and so on. I don't think that this can be related to post processing - view entities are rendered together with panels and should not be affected by the view material at all.

It had something to do with shaders... if I enabled them I had no view entities and then, without changing anything else except for disabling the shaders, i couldn't see the models any more. It wasn't angles or flags...

I have no clue about shaders, but I'll ask someone from my team to post.

How did you enable the shaders? Can you post the code?

In much post processing the original view or subsequent views are blended with a view or views that are processed. Such as in a multipass bloom effect.

However it seems that currently if a bitmap is assigned to the camera view, for later processing, view entities will not appear.

The code below uses the workshop emboss example modified with a blob view entity and two lines that set up a bitmap for the camera view. As is, the view entity appears, but uncomment the lines to create the camera bitmap, and the view entity is not rendered.



This is also the reason why a user of shade-c's DOF, HDR or bloom effect find that their view entities are no longer visible with any of shade-c's effects enabled.

I have the exact same problem.
As described by Grafton, when using shade-c, view entities will not be visible, as soon as i render the scene into a bmap.
Tried everything i could think of to solve this problem so i can release a fix for shade-c, but so far i didn't have any luck.

If rendering view entities into render targets isn't possible at all at the moment, please consider releasing a fix in the future. It's not urgent as you can use workarounds, but it would be nice to have that feature some day

I'll look into this. Probably it's some side effect. We'll make sure that view entities at least stay visible when postprocessing is active.

Thanks JCL, I hope you also consider creating the ability to add view entities to the post processing via a flag. A first person weapon or sun flares might look strange if they were the only parts of the scene without DOF, HDR, bloom etc.

I could not see anything wrong with your example, or any side effect that would make view entities invisible when postprocessing views are active. Of course you must not assign the entity to the postprocessing view, but to the real view.