Hello,
Could someone please explain how to use image planes and transparency in 3.5R2? Everything I try ends with the plane being invisible when I have the subtool I am working on selected. Then when I select the plane the subtool becomes invisible.
Please help! 
Take a look at Preferences -> Draw -> Ghost Clear Transparency. Itâs on by default in 3.5 and you may want it off. (Note: Clearing button in preferences wonât trigger a redrawâtoggle between subtools to update the display.)
Iâm pretty sure itâs state will save with the config state if you do a âSave configâ.
-K
Hi,
Thanks for the advice. Sadly I tried and it still doesnât work. The only way I can get old style transparency and the sphere object to become transparent whilst seeing the texture on the imageplaneX is to turn off ghost transparency as you suggested⌠but I need to have selected the imageplaneX
As soon as I try to edit the sphere the imageplane becomes transparent but anything covered by the sphere cannot be seen. Why on earth canât you make the active subtool transparent?
Iâm facing the same problem, unable to find a way to edit a transparent subtool against a opaque reference plane.
Anyone has a solution?
cheers
Transparency has changed in 3.5 for HD sculpting and other features. You can turn Ghost Transparency off in the Preferences>Draw. This will turn ghost off, however the new transparency will change the way you reference sculpt. The images must now be infront of the mesh.
Hope this helps.
Paul
OK. My last suggestion bombed. Next tip:
The third slider down from âGhost Clear Transparencyâ is labeled âback opacityâ.
With Ghost Clear Transparency ON, turn this slide up to around 4 or 5. This will make objects BEHIND the current subtool appear ghostly on the screen so you can see them while you sculpt. This might work the sculpting clothes example. Itâs going to be a little confusing when you rotate as the ghost of the non-selected tool will appear in your field of view.
This will you see objects inside and behind the current tool youâre sculpting on.
It doesnât really help to have transparent objects behind - or as in my case inside (!) an opaque subtool that covers everything. I really donât know what the developers were thinking when they set it up like this. Why not let users choose which subtool should be transparent? :rolleyes:
According to support, making the active subtool transparent âis not an option for 3.5â (quote) but they are passing on the issue to the development team. If you want transparency to work for the active subtool I suggest you open a ticket, too, so they see there are more users who need that feature.
If you turn on back transparency (as I suggested above) you will find the non active subtool is visible inside the solid, non-transparent current subtool. Back transparency makes the âtransparentâ subtools appear inside or in front of even solid objects.
Attached are two screen shoots of a polyshere with a polystar inside. The first is with âback opacityâ of zero (note you canât see the star) and the other is with a back opacity of 0.5 (note the star is now visible inside the active sphere.
Not exactly the same behavior as 3.1 (the sphere looks solid and the non-active subtoolâthe starâis ghostly) but I can clearly see the star to sculpt the sphere around it . . .
Give it try first. I donât need to open a ticket, since I can see and work with the non-active subtool just fine with back transparency on.
Here we are in default setup with back opacity at zero.
Here we are with Back Opacity at 0.5 (note the sphere is still the active subtool and the star is still inside the sphere)
Cheers Kerwin⌠but it only works if you dont need the object to have a texture on it, as with an image plane. Cos for them its knackered lol!