Away3D Forum Away3D 4: Is there an easy way to force certain planes to z-sort to the front regardless of z-position?

Away3D 4: Is there an easy way to force certain planes to z-sort to the front regardless of z-position? Software: Away3D 4.x

Dave Cole, Newbie Posted: 10 February 2012 11:09 PM Total Posts: 1 Is there a way in Away3D 4 to force a particular ObjectContainer or Plane to z-sort to the frontmost position on the screen, regardless of its position in z-space? Thanks! -Dave
theMightyAtom, Sr. Member Posted: 11 February 2012 08:09 AM Total Posts: 669 [ # 1 ] In a word, No! In contrast to previous versions of Away3d, where everything happened on the CPU, written in AS3, in Away3D 4.0, the depth is handled automatically on the GPU. Despite this, it should be possible in both DirectX and OpenGL, but is currently not possible through the AGAL API provided for the FLash player.
John Brookes, Moderator Posted: 11 February 2012 01:24 PM Total Posts: 732 [ # 2 ] It is possible in a very hacky way. http://www.shrewballooba.co.uk/infront/ That has this in Enity.pushModelViewProjection `if (this.name == "ontop")//the red cube { var m:Matrix3D = camera.renderToTextureProjection.clone() var msk:Matrix3D = new Matrix3D(Vector.<Number>([10,0,0,0,0,10,0,0,0,0,10,0,0,0,0,11])); m.append(msk) mvp.append( m); }`
mikerz, Newbie Posted: 13 August 2012 07:31 PM Total Posts: 6 [ # 3 ] So, it seems like the newer versions won’t work this way—there is no camera.renderToTextureProjection property for example… Any word on implementing the hack in newer versions? What does renderToTextureProjection represent? The current camera transforms don’t seem to work with this code.
John Brookes, Moderator Posted: 13 August 2012 08:52 PM Total Posts: 732 [ # 4 ] No idea. was just something random I did while poking AWAY with a stick and never used Does cam.viewProjection not work? Not upgraded to Gold yet.
mikerz, Newbie Posted: 14 August 2012 08:01 PM Total Posts: 6 [ # 5 ] Nope -_- camera.viewProjection doesn’t work
mikerz, Newbie Posted: 14 August 2012 10:28 PM Total Posts: 6 [ # 6 ] Well, no, I didn’t spend enough time on it; actually using the more explicit code I saw elsewhere it seems to sort of work! that’s a big start… just seems to translate things right now
Shegl, Sr. Member Posted: 16 September 2012 08:20 AM Total Posts: 134 [ # 7 ] Anyone make work this ? Im trying to z-sort sprite3d but.

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