Friday I was composing some object shaders and integrated them into the project. At some point we realized that under-water objects where reflected as they were above the water although I was using clipping panes. I thought I screwed up something but an idea made me check everything without the shaders and I found the trouble maker: the default shader of virtools is setting ClipPlaneEnable to zero!
After the initial shock, I thought: interesting, can it entirely be setup and used inside the HLSL technique definitions? Soon I dropped that idea, because I would have to do technique-switching and that requires manual bookkeeping as Virtools offers no help with that. So how could I get back my correct reflections?
I thought about an old workaround I did somewhen in end 2006 or early 2007 but for this scenario it wouldn't work. This time I really would need some kind of "texkill" instruction that I did not found back then. And you know what? The HLSL counterpart is
Clip(x)
Probably you all already know about that, but for me it's my new best "HLSL friend"! 
All fine now 
(Btw. in regards to the default shader, it might be a better idea to omit that state overwrite. Don't know how this is helpful in the way it is right now. )
Comment by vsai — Sunday, 2nd November, 2008 @ 11:52
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