RGL ellipse3d transparency problem when using bgplot3d-CodePudding

My goal is to display points on a transparent sphere using RGL. This works fine by using

open3d(windowRect=c(0,0,512,512))
plot3d(c(x,-x),c(y,-y),c(z,z),aspect=F)
shade3d(ellipse3d(diag(3), c(0,0,0),t=1),
        color='lightgray',alpha=0.8,lit=FALSE, add=TRUE)
rglwidget()

However, when in the same plot the function bgplot3d() is called, the sphere is somehow pushed into the foreground and drowns out all the points and the box around it:

It would be great to have the sphere in the same way as before, even in the case bgplot3d() has been called. I already experimented with depth_mask, but nothing worked so far.

CodePudding user response：

Call plot3d after shade3d:

library(rgl)

set.seed(666)
pts <- uniformly::runif_on_sphere(25, d = 3)
x <- rnorm(100)
y <- rnorm(100)

open3d(windowRect = c(50, 50, 562, 562))
shade3d(ellipse3d(diag(3), t = 1),
        color = 'lightgray', alpha = 0.8, lit = FALSE)
plot3d(pts, aspect = FALSE, add = TRUE, col = "red", size = 4)
bgplot3d(plot(x, y))

CodePudding user response：

The problem has vanished after installing the most recent rgl update (version 0.109.2).