1/3‼️ #rayrender 0.8.0 announcement, part 3! This update adds alpha texture support, so you can apply transparency to 3D objects. Here's an example scene, made out of a single sphere and a couple planes. Think Paper Mario, but in #rstats
2/3 This update also adds support for transparency in OBJ files, which allows you to render incredibly detailed models without millions and millions of polygons. Check out this thread zooming into a 3D tree to see what I mean. https://twitter.com/tylermorganwall/status/1240801168751759361
3/3 And you can apply the transparency to any object in rayrender. Here's a transparency layer applied to a sphere.

To download and get more information, check out the following.

pkgdown site:
http://www.rayrender.net 
Github:
http://www.github.com/tylermorganwall/rayrender
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