Issue with transparent texture on 3D primitive, XNA 4.0

Question

I need to draw a large set of cubes, all with (possibly) unique textures on each side. Some of the textures also have parts of transparency. The cubes that are behind ones w

Answer 1

You are relying on depth buffering to achieve occlusion. This technique only works for opaque objects.

To achieve correct occlusion for a scene containing transparent objects:

1. Set DepthBufferEnable and DepthBufferWriteEnable to true

2. Draw all opaque geometry

3. Leave DepthBufferEnable set to true, but change DepthBufferWriteEnable to false

4. Sort alpha blended objects by distance from the camera, then draw them in order from back to front

Extract from Depth sorting alpha blended objects by Shawn Hargreaves