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The Materials panel controls material properties of surfaces. It works with the target object in the same way that the Appearance panel does. <CENTER><IMG SRC="pix/mat.gif"><P>The Materials Panel</CENTER>
This button determines whether transparency is enabled. Geomview itself does not fully support transparency yet and on some machines it does not work at all. (The missing piece is implementation of a depth-sorting algorithm in the rendering engine; not difficult, but just not done yet.) Use RenderMan if you want real transparency: when transparency is enabled, a RenderMan snapshot will contain the alpha information.