Hi guys,

I was just ruminating how to do something requiring a separate session or “render layer” for an object in my scene.  Does anyone know if there is yet any equivalent in Away 4 to the ownSession functionality in Away 3 as outlined by Rob Bateman here:?

http://www.mail-archive.com/away3d-dev@googlegroups.com/msg02900.html

The functionality in that post is exactly what I need.

I’m looking for this functionality too!

I assume the Skybox uses some kind of z-sorting that ensures it is always rendered behind everything else (i.e. drawn first). Being able to set a z-order, other than the default sorting would be very useful.

It’s much more complex with Stage3D, because the Z-compositing happens automatically (which is a large part of why it’s so fast). But file a feature request on GitHub. Arbitrary z-sorting might be something we can add down the road, probably with a slight performance penalty.

Logged at github.  Thanks.