Can I use away 4.0 with flex 4 project (rawchildren, uicomponent or SpriteVisualElement)?

[originaltomato]

does anybody know 

Can I use away 4.0 with flex 4 project (rawchildren, uicomponent or SpriteVisualElement)?

currently I don't see anything in the viewport but awaystats reports 2010/0 polygons

[Michael Iv]

Molehill Stage3D uses a separate layer which is behind the regular stage.So theoretically you should be able to use it with Flex SDK as it is going to reside behind it .I have not tried it but it seems logical to me.

--

Michael Ivanov ,Programmer
Neurotech Solutions Ltd.
Flex|Air |3D|Unity|
www.neurotechresearch.com
http://blog.alladvanced.net
Tel:054-4962254
mic...@neurotech.co.il
te...@neurotech.co.il

[originaltomato]

yyeeey tnx, backgroundAlpha="0" showed the viewport

[Sharkow]

Hello. I've tried to create a simple scene with a colored sphere on a
SpriteVisualElement and add it to a BorderContainer.
But as a result I get just a WHITE rectangle. (As I understood, even a
rough scene would have been black).
I've tried to set backgroundAlpha="0" for the application and
backgroundFill=new SolidColor(0,0) for the BorderContainer.

It's my first away3D project and I'm also new to flash, so maybe,
there are just simple mistakes. Look through my code, please.
canvas is my BorderContainer.

away3DCanvas = new SpriteVisualElement();
view = new View3D();
view.x=canvas.width/2;
view.y=canvas.height/2;
view.camera.z=-300;
away3DCanvas.width=view.width=canvas.width;
away3DCanvas.height=view.height=canvas.height;
away3DCanvas.addChild(view);
objectContainer = new ObjectContainer3D();
material = new ColorMaterial(0xe4972a, 0.5)
view.scene.addChild(objectContainer);
objectContainer.addChild(new Sphere(material));
canvas.addElement(away3DCanvas);
view.render();

I've looked through the BasicTemplate.as stored here and there a
Camera3D and a Scene3D are also created. But I get errors on this,
because camera and scene properties of the View3D are read-only. In
the sample-code for broomstick from the away3D site these objects are
not created too.
So, what the problem can be? Thank you.

[Sharkow]

...Also tried to use UIComponent instead of SpriteVisualElement, but
there are no results.
Please, help me, I've looked through several articles and examples but
can't find any significant difference :(

[Sharkow]

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3546912
Oh, that's bad. It seems, in spark you have to set visible="false" for
the application. In fact, for me even this didn't work.
So, it seems a big problem. If anyone knows what to do, please, give
feedback :\

[Jon Bradley]

Just create a custom skin for the background that's transparent.

Also be sure the rest of your project is set up appropriately with the -swf-version=13 compiler flag (I think?) and the direct gpu mode in the html template file. 

- j

[Sharkow]

You mean, that will be different from setting backgroundAlpha=0 for
the application?

Compiler and gpu are ok :)

[rctdeclan]

try this
http://code.google.com/p/away3d/source/browse/branches/lite-flex/src/ExUIComponentCanvas.as

[Justin Patrin]

I was stumped by this too for a while. What worked for me was setting backgroundAlpha to 0 on the Application.

[originaltomato]

i just tested it for you, this worked for me:

http://dev2020.com/2011/03/away3d-4-and-molehill-in-flex-project/

setting BOTH params.