TGEA 1.8 Beta1 -- RIT_ObjectTranslucent Rendering Problems

I don't understand the rational behind this code bit that occurs in the middle of transparent mesh rendering in the file renderTranslucentMgr.cpp:

RenderInst* nextRI = mElementList[a].inst;
    if (nextRI->type == RenderPassManager::RIT_ObjectTranslucent)
        continue;

One thing it does do is cause rendering passes of RIT_ObjectTranslucent types to be arbitrarily skipped when mingled in the rendering queue with transparent mesh renderings. They don't even need to be visually overlapping, just overlapping in their distances.

As I understand it, RIT_ObjectTranslucent types are for objects that do their own rendering but need their rendering order sorted along with other transparent objects (particles, translucent meshes, etc.), but the above code breaks that purpose. Currently, only volume-lights and fxLight flares are rendered as RIT_ObjectTranslucent but it's a useful category for implementing the rendering of new custom types with transparency.

This particular code logic is not present in TGEA 1.7.1 and there is also no special handling of particles and other transparent objects that can also mingle with the mesh renderings.

I have found that simply replacing the "continue" with a "break" in the problematic code produces good results and does not skip RIT_ObjectTranslucent renderings, but it's quite possible that I'm not testing a situation that this code was intended to fix.