Apply textures to quads

[dcnieho]

It would be super cool if you are able to draw images positioned at a certain 3D position/orientation.

According to some googling its possible in matlab like this:
https://se.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/300826-how-do-i-insert-an-image-in-my-2-d-and-3-d-plots-in-matlab-8-2-r2013b
which produces:

If i mess with a corner point this still works fine:

Being able to texture surfaces would be super helpful for applications, e.g., where you show some 3D reconstruction result.

I guess it is possible using custom rendering, adapting your example there. But then it would be nice if the library would support a way to z-sort for the current frame so that i can draw back to front. That would entail submitting geometry and then being able to iterate over the plot objects and having them returned in the correct order so occlusions would be correct.

[brenocq]

I love the idea, thanks for the contribution! This should be possible to implement and it sounds very useful, I'll take a look into it later this week! :)

I guess it is possible using custom rendering, adapting your example there. But then it would be nice if the library would support a way to z-sort for the current frame so that i can draw back to front.

ImPlot3D implements a "triangle" z-sort internally to make sure triangles are rendered in the correct order. It is not ideal when triangles overlap, but it works nice most of the time.

[dcnieho]

Cool, looking forward to it! If you implement it directly, some kind of access to your internal z-sorting would not be needed (though potentially still useful for other applications of course, I'd call it pretty low priority at best).