I define my own sphere using TriangleArray. And I use a LineArray to define a spiral on the surface of the sphere (actually, at a slightly larger radius so its just off the surface of the sphere.) Both sphere and spiral are centered on the origin.
I then define the sphere's appearance to have a transparency of 0.5 of type NICEST. Why can't I see the spiral line through the sphere? I have tried putting both sphere and spiral under an OrderedGroup. No matter which order I add the sphere and the spiral to the OrderedGroup, I still end up with the sphere *completely* blocking the line array for line segments "behind" the sphere. Even if I set the transparency to 0.9, the line segments behind the sphere do not show through. Is this the correct behaivor of the OrderedGroup? I thought that if I forced the LineArray to render first that it would show through the TriangleArray, but that doesn't seems to be the case. What do I have to do to get the LineArray to show through the sphere (without using SCREENDOOR)? Cheers, Bob Gray =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
