Hello,
I updated from svn and I found a surprise. Gone is the property “transparent”. Is there a problem with this property?. I am using alpha transparencies with. Png.
Thank you.

I answer myself. There is a new property: “alphablending.”

We decided that to rename this property since it was very misleading. There are actually two methods for alpha handling in Away4, one of which is enabled with “alphaBlending” (previously called “transparent”) and the other with “alphaThreshold”. The old name seemed to suggest that there was only one method, when in fact it is not even the most suitable of the two in most cases.

The “alphaThreshold” is much quicker, because it will hide all pixels with alpha values below a particular threshold, which means significantly less work for the shader.

Only use “alphaBlending” if you really, really need semi-transparency. In many cases, alphaThreshold will be just as fine (or better) with far superior performance.

The alphaBlending property appears to affect z-sorting, as did the alpha property before.

Using AlphaThreshold, notice eye brows and lashes…
http://www.videometry.net/broomstick/alphaTest/face_alphathreshold.png

Using AlphaBlending,eyelashes and brows are better, but z-sorting gives black areas.
http://www.videometry.net/broomstick/alphaTest/face_alphablending.png

Has the ‘alphablending’ property disappeared in the FP11 beta version? I’m using a BitmapFileMaterial and I can get alphThreshold to work, but not alphaBlending…