Hello everyone!

I’m doing a 3D simulator of the solar system using Away3D. I need to add a kind of a control panel at the bottom of the screen (with some components like radio buttons etc.). When I do it, there are terrible rendering problems (the 3D scene and the control panel mix together in a nasty way…). Can you help me finding the solution? In my view I could attach Away3D view not to the whole scene, but for example to a smaller panel or something like this - but how to do it?

I attach a file which shows the problem

do you addChild above the view3d?
It looks like you use Flex. What happends if you use pure as3 or simply add a basic graphic on top of the view?

I’m working using Flash Professional CS5.5. I’m simply creating a panel using components and Rectangle tool. (I do it in the main scene view).

Then, I add the code to it - and no, there is no other addChild calling.

I’m pretty sure it’s something very easy to handle - but I’m a beginner in flash and that’s it.

No-one knows the solution…?

OK, I’d like only to know, how to ‘attach’ Away3D View not to the WHOLE flash screen/page, but only to a part of it… Is it possible?

Your panel is added to the 2D Scene before you add your viewport to the scene:

this.addChild(_yourPanel);
this.addChild(_view);

you can either change that to

this.addChild(_view);
this.addChild(_yourPanel);

or the the index of your Panel to bring it to the front:

this.setChildIndex(_yourPanel, this.numChildren-1); // puts the panel on top

the other thing you are searching for is clipping. I don’t know the code from scratch: Google Away3D Clipping

Thanks a lot! This clipping was that I was looking for;)