Hey everyone,

this is probably a bit of a beginner question but I am not sure how to best solve it at this point.

Let’s say I have a more or less complex character model, consisting out of several sub meshes (eyeballs, eyelids, etc.)
It works perfectly.

Now in certain cases the character model will obscure another object I actually have to see. Therefore, I make the character model temporarily transparent.

Gameplay wise the perfect solution. (The both have to occupy the same space on screen but I want to see what’s behind the character model.)

In order to make the character model transparent I apply a ColourTransform, setting alpha to about 0.4.

Again, this works perfectly but looks rather ugly because now I can see the eyeballs floating within the model etc.
Is there a “prettier” way to achieve this effect? (So I can see through the model without seeing what is within it?)

Does that make sense?

I’m afraid not, apart from making sure that your entire character is the same renderable (a single SubGeometry/SubMesh within a Geometry/Mesh) but then you’ll have problems with animating things individually. I’m afraid this sounds like something that will be hard to solve with a general-purpose 3D engine using the rendering pipeline that Away3D uses.