I'm looking for a shader that can replicate the effect seen in Halo (thread in User requests) where an actual transparency is rendered but without the X-Ray aspect of common transparencies.

This effect is ideal for the cloaking effect for what I hope to use it for.

Can anyone help out here?

Could you post a screenshot of the effect?

From what I understood:

http://homepage.mac.com/cbauer/hunter/cloak.html

Not the best example but conveys the efect well.

This should do the job. Create a nice normalmap, apply the shader to your model and you should be set. (That is if your 3dgs version has the render to texture feature, look for the rtt dll if you "only" own A6 Com)

Hi, I checked that out but it wasnt close enough to what I am looking for right now, still, will see a bit later on.

I think I am looking for a chrome with transparency applied or enviromapping, chrome and transparency.

Heres another shot...

as havoc already posted, to me it looks more like a refraction effect with specularity.

plus you could try different blend states for the brighting

Ok cool, not clued up about shaders at all yet so maybe I should go back to that one (refraction) and see what I can get going. Thanks guys, much appreciated.

im trying to use the refraction shader and it just gives me a black screen. i have the r2t dll its plugged in properly (because i can use real time water reflections) so whats wrong.