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Subject: Semi-transparent planes

VolcanicMink opened this issue on Jan 04, 2017 · 5 posts

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VolcanicMink ( ) posted Wed, 04 January 2017 at 8:05 PM · edited Sun, 10 November 2024 at 12:04 AM

I'm using Images as Planes for templates (front, side, back) in making a 3d figure. How can I make the planes semi-transparent? Using Blender 2.76

DramaKing ( ) posted Wed, 04 January 2017 at 8:23 PM

Create another texture and set it to your alpha map. Set the Influence to Alpha. Then, in the Material tab, enable Transparency and reduce the Alpha amount.

It is better to do one thing well, than to do many things and excel at nothing.

VolcanicMink ( ) posted Wed, 04 January 2017 at 8:26 PM

Thank you

LuxXeon ( ) posted Wed, 04 January 2017 at 9:00 PM

Also, under Addons in Preferences, you can find the Import-Export: Import Images As Planes. With this extension, you can import images automatically as planes, and set specific material presets, such as transparency.

https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Add_Mesh/Planes_from_Images

This is available in the Addons of all new releases of Blender since 2.6.

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