Question intersecting 2 quads with transparent shader

when i intersect 2 quads with a transparent shader the sorting gets bugged

i have found that if I instead leave the material as opaque and just tick "alpha clipping", it works

is this supposed to be the fix or is there something more nefarious at play?

 

see this related topics, about transparency sorting issues
https://realtimevfx.com/t/transparency-issues-in-unity/4337/2
https://forum.unity.com/threads/is-it-possible-to-fix-the-transparency-depth-sorting-issue.480631/

 

i see theres quite some complexity

would you say that alpha clipping is a good solution if I dont need to use any range within 0.01-and 0.99 of alpha?

 

yes if it works for your case.

additive blending was mentioned as one workaround also.

 

Yes, additive blending doesn't require sorting as you're just adding values (and addition is commutative). But you need to ensure opaque objects are rendered first and then draw transparent objects without modifying the z-buffer (not sure how to specify this stuff in Unity). Of course the result is completely different to alpha blending.

For a 2D game, I think the best would be to force rendering objects from furthest to closest distance to the camera (again, not sure how to do such thing in Unity)