Entering transparent pipeline when reading ALPHA

Nitwel · web-flow · commit 99da9754d104 · 2024-05-10T14:27:25.000+02:00
It's just a minor change, but I got confused on why the material was still using the transparent pipeline even though I removed all writes to ALPHA. So adding this should clarify things.
diff --git a/tutorials/shaders/shader_reference/spatial_shader.rst b/tutorials/shaders/shader_reference/spatial_shader.rst
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ these properties, and if you don't write to them, Godot will optimize away the c
 +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | out vec3 **ALBEDO**                    | Albedo (default white).                                                                          |
 +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| out float **ALPHA**                    | Alpha (0..1); if written to, the material will go to the transparent pipeline.                   |
+| out float **ALPHA**                    | Alpha (0..1); if read from or written to, the material will go to the transparent pipeline.      |
 +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | out float **ALPHA_SCISSOR_THRESHOLD**  | If written to, values below a certain amount of alpha are discarded.                             |
 +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
