Subtractive Boolean Rendering

Hello.

I'm looking for a way to render the meshes where a mesh-defined or geometrically-defined area will "cut out" the mesh when it's rendered so the insides are visible. It doesn't necessarily have to fill the gaps pf the polygons but doing so will be fine as well. Here is an example of what I mean :

 

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-Stencil.html

 

Here is a step by step progress
=> The sphere material should be "Cull Front" and "Write Depth",
=> "Cull Front" make you only see inside of sphere surface.
=> "Write Depth" make sphere block the cube.
=> The box material should be "Enable Depth Test".
=> "Enable Depth Test" make your cube blocked by sphere.
=> Gaps problem can be solved by something called "soft particle by depth buffer". Try google it.
=> Use stencil also ok however stencil buffer is terrible supported on mobile platform. Take care of it.

 

I tried stencils, but they only mask the object and not actually cut off their Zdepths

I'm not sure how I can enable depth test.

 

Hey steven. Did you have a solution for closing gaps of meshes when they are cut off ?

 

I'd say, pass 1 (after other geometry to have correct contents of the stencil buffer):
- Render the cube
- Write 1 to stencil

Pass 2 (after pass 1):
- Render the sphere
- Reverse culling, Cull Front
- Only if stencil is 1 to only intersect into cube
- ZTest GEqual

Stencil is not needed if the sphere should be rendered into everything.

 

How can I implement something like that with shader code ? I'm a noob when it comes to writing scripts for shaders.