# movieMaterial.movieTransparent = !?!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moviematerial-movietransparent/285991>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 8, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moviematerial-movietransparent/285991 "2009-04-08T15:23:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![dbdvd7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@dbdvd7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dbdvd7)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moviematerial-movietransparent/285991/1 "2009-04-08T15:23:01Z")

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I’ve been messing around with this for a while, I can set the transparency of a movieMaterial (in PV3D) when instantiated(i.e. new MovieMaterial(asset:\*, transparent = true); But for the sake of optimizing my FLV, I need to turn the transparency on/off when certain planes are selected. For some reason, when I set movieMaterial.movieTransparent = false/true, the material does not respond. The material is set to animated=true. What am I missing here?