Of course the answer is that the black colour which I couldn't figure out, on the Plane, was coming from the material for a cylinder in the AdvancedSupernovaVisualiser.as; nothing to do with the moviematerial or anything related to it...(doh)
On Jun 9, 2:57 pm, bandy <lawrence.mcdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using the animation that lives in a class > (AdvancedSupernovaVisualiser in 3.5 examples) as the source for a > moviematerial applied to a Plane in another class. > That works and I can see the animation on the Plane. But I would like > to see through the Plane where there is no animation, whereas now this > area on the Plane is black. > Using a compositematerial with the moviematerial together with a > transparent png bitmapmaterial doesn't do the job. > nor does setting "transparent:true" in the moviematerial ( does > anybody know what that does?) > Likewise there is no embedded swf with a black stage in the imported > class. > I realise this is probably simple, thanks for any help. > And thanks for the brilliant away3d.