Alex Hew wrote:

> How many times will performance be increased when I set objects that are
> not viewable to transparent? Or would the performance be better if I
> totally detach them from my branchgroup and attach them when required.

Setting them to be transparent would actually slow your application down
as transparency sorting consumes a lot of CPU cycles.

Instead of using the transparency, you should be using the setVisible()
method of RenderingAttributes as this will completely remove your object
from any of the rendering calculations.

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