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    Background image transparency

    Posted by Alan Lacey on March 10, 2011 at 11:38 am

    Sorry if this has been asked before but I couldn’t find anything doing a search.

    I have a jpg image placed as a background in one of my orthogonal viewports and would like to dim it down a bit. The transparency and alpha mode options on the viewport\back tab are greyed out. I’ve tried other image formats (tga,png) but still can’t use the transparency option.

    I have used this before but just can’t remember the details. What am I forgetting?

    FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
    FCS,AE,Combustion,LiquidSilver,Vegas,Edius,
    G5,MBP,Vista64,XP

    Alan Lacey replied 15 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Miroslav Hora

    March 10, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    Do You have Show image option checked? Are Transparency and alpha options the only grayed out checkboxes or is grayed out the whole attributes panel?

    https://miroslavhora.eu
    Prague – CZ

  • Alan Lacey

    March 10, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    Found it thanks Miroslav, It needs to be OpenGL viewport, mine was set to software shading.

    Alan

    FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
    FCS,AE,Combustion,LiquidSilver,Vegas,Edius,
    G5,MBP,Vista64,XP

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