Have you tried changing how the slider/render loop interact? May want
to control the synchronization of the two since the cube appears to
correct it self once the slider is done moving.

On Mar 17, 5:11 am, Wouter Walmink <[email protected]> wrote:
> Developers / knowledgeable users:
> Could you shed some light on this issue? I have seen it pop up before,
> but never answered. I am very interested to know if there is a
> workaround for this bug(?) (otherwise, I have to ditch the idea of
> using outlines alltogether :(
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> On Mar 8, 2:33 am, Wouter Walmink <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I noticed someone with the same issue (http://groups.google.com/group/
> > away3d-dev/browse_thread/thread/40d9d1d35d69152a/9ff4db4cb0c7ce5f?
> > lnk=gst&q=outline#9ff4db4cb0c7ce5f), but his question was not
> > answered. When responding to his post, my reply got lost, so I'm
> > retrying it now as a new post.
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> > Basically, when you apply an WireFrameMaterial as theoutlinefor a
> > cube, it works fine. However, when you change a dimension (w/h/d) of
> > the cube, theoutlineoften (about 1/2 of the time you change
> > dimensions) breaks.
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> > Here is a little demo that show the problem (use sliders for resizing
> > the box):http://away3dtest.walmink.com/wireframetest/WireFrameTest.swf
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> > Here are some screenshots to show the problem:
> > A box withoutlineapplied, working 
> > fine:http://away3dtest.walmink.com/wireframetest/box_outline.png
> > After the dimensions have been changed, 
> > theoutlinebreaks:http://away3dtest.walmink.com/wireframetest/box_outline_broken.png
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> > I tried many things, but the issue persisted:
> > * different materials
> > * different render modes
> > * remove & add cube from scene
> > * add & remove material
> > * updateMesh function on cube
> > * forceUpdate property on true for view
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> > The only thing that seems to work is creating a new cube with the
> > right dimensions and replacing the old cube with it. This may work for
> > a simple cube, but I want to create a complex shape, so recreating it
> > every cycle would kill the performance.
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> > Is seems to me to be a bug, or an undesirable behavior at least. Does
> > any of the developers or expert users here know what causes this and
> > if there is some kind of fix for this? (I am new to 3D modelling, so I
> > haven't dared to look at the Away3D source code yet :-)

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