Unfortunately if you reuse that material for multiple planes, they all
change.
Is there any way in away3DLite you can target just one particular
plane. The layer property doesn't seem to be functioning.
On Jul 14, 12:20 pm, PW <paul.whittem...@mcgarrybowen.com> wrote:
> I do have a 'hackish' way of doing this in the meantime if anyone
> comes across this post although I would still appreciate knowing how
> to use the layers in Lite.
>
> Instead of using a bitmap to texture your plane in away3dlite, you use
> a movieMaterial with the bitmap already exported in the swf. Then you
> can alter the actual movies alpha:
>
> yourplane.material.movie.alpha = x;
>
> Again, I'd rather not have to create swfs for my bitmaps and am
> curious how to affect alpha through the layer property.
>
> On Jul 14, 12:16 pm, PW <paul.whittem...@mcgarrybowen.com> wrote:
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> > Planes in away3dlite don't have the ownCanvas property unfortunately.
> > I have built this in Away3D and using ownCanvas works great for
> > setting the alpha. But this needs to be in away3Dlite.
>
> > Thank you though.
>
> > On Jul 14, 12:07 pm, Rich Elmes <asimi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > try plane3.ownCanvas=true;
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> > > On Jul 13, 4:42 pm, PW <paul.whittem...@mcgarrybowen.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I have a number of planes that are being added to an
> > > > ObjectContainer3D.
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> > > > //
> > > > planesHolder = new ObjectContainer3D();
> > > > bitmapMaterial = new BitmapFileMaterial("images/note.png");
> > > > bitmapMaterial.smooth = true;
> > > > //
> > > > //
> > > > for (var k:int = 0; k < 10; k++)
> > > > {
> > > > var plane3:Plane = new Plane(bitmapMaterial,73,82);
> > > > planes3.push(plane3);
> > > > planesHolder3.addChild(plane3);}
>
> > > > //
>
> > > > Now I have tried adding layers for each plane like so:
>
> > > > plane3.layer = new Sprite();
> > > > view.addChild(plane3.layer);
> > > > plane3.layer.alpha = .2;
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> > > > And have also tried adding a layer to the ObjectContainer3D:
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> > > > planesHolder3.layer = new Sprite();
> > > > view.addChild(planesHolder3.layer);
> > > > planesHolder3.layer.alpha = .2;
>
> > > > In both cases, I later add the planesHolder (ObjectContainer3D) to the
> > > > scene.
>
> > > > view.scene.addChild(planesHolder3);
>
> > > > However, no alpha properties are being applied for any of the planes.
> > > > Can someone point to what I'm doing incorrectly please?
>
> > > > Thanks.
