Ingo Brunberg wrote:

> It's a pity, that this new feature, which should have solved some of
> Java 3D's transparency problems is so completely unusable.

I'd like to add a word of caution here. As the j3d guys have said, this
is a verifiable bug in their implementation. However, don't forget that
this is the first beta, not the final release. Plenty of other people
are using the depth-sorted transparency quite usefully and so labelling
a new feature in a new beta as "completely unusable" is going a little
far. You've found a bug in a corner case, and quite probably only
effects one platform. My initial reading of your post I thought the
problem sounded like a video card driver issue as I couldn't get your
test app to hang my machine (DirectX 8.1, JDK1.4b3 & J3d 1.3b1).

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