[Solved] Define queue bucket in material

[remy_vd]

You cannot set the Bucket in the material since it is not a material parameter. The bucket ensures that the transparent object is drawn on top of objects behind it. In the material you set the Blend mode to indicate that your color/texture has an alpha channel.

for reference:
https://jmonkeyengine.github.io/wiki/jme3/beginner/hello_material.html

Alpha/Transparency Sorting, Your Z-buffer, and You

Since this comes up every three or four days, I decided to put together some visual aids. There is often a lot of confusion with how pixels get processed in relation to the z-buffer and why sorting is important. Most importantly it can be mind-warping trying to wrap one’s head around how to ‘fix’ the cases where proper sorting isn’t possible. Hopefully these diagrams help show the futility of it all… I mean the trade offs one has to make to get transparency looking its best in the general cas…