stencil
List of: Glossary Items
Subjects: Materials, Transparency
Contents: Glossary

A stencil is the part of a transparency shader that is used to simulate the effect of holes being cut into a surface. A stencil may be considered to be a mask lying over a surface that describes the presence or absence of material.
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