[kayila]

Hey Martin,

I think you may be onto something. I suspect I may have been using Eevee previously. I guess a modified version of my question would be could this effect be done in eevee?

As for the addons…. I don’t believe any should be affecting rendering, but I suspect that the addon you’re referring to is References Overlays: https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/references-overlays

[kayila]

So, as with so many computer problems, I asked for help and attempted to get an example of the problem, and instead my computer decided that there was no problem and everything was working fine.

The initial problem, for what it was worth, is that the orb itself was rendering as either opaque (rendering the inside completely invisible) or transparent, yet somehow hiding the animation inside.

Seems to work now, so I’ve no idea what I was doing wrong before.

Thank you both for offering to help!

I’m attaching an image of what I have anyways in case anyone sees something obviously wrong or if anyone wants to see what I did.

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