Irrlicht Engine

Hey, Im trying to make a mesh transparent at night. When i try setting the meshes vertex alpha transparency for each vertex... its transparent during the day, and not the night. Fully transparent areas show as black. Im using EMT_TRANSPARENT_VERTEX_ALPHA with pure vertex data. No texture... but its ...

Hey I finally got my class working as it should, except for one problem. I have a Skycone with the color gradient depending on the time of day. I also have a star sphere in the back with a star texture on it. I'm trying to make portions of the cone transparent at night (except the horizon) but it do...

does CMeshManipulator::setVertexColors() allow to change vertex colors based on height? Thats really what I need to do.

Hey yall, I just started using Irrlicht a few weeks ago, and I'm impressed with it's simplistic power. Anyways, my problem is creating a sky-dome and having access to vertex color data. I tried loading a 3DS file into irrlicht, but I couldn't figure out if I was able to change vertex color on those....