No, it shouldn't be affected. You can draw the nested object and its owners will not affect how it looks.
--- In [email protected], "reflexactions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I draw the contents of a target DisplayObjectContainer into a Bitmap > is the rendered image affected by the alpha state of any parent > container of the target. > > i.e. the targets alpha may be 1 but say somewhere above it a parent > container has its alpha set to .5 does the bitmap image look like the > target with an alpha of 1 or .5? > > tks >

