[Bf-funboard] Viewport Transparency and Cycles

[Julian Herzog]

I just saw that Pablo Vazquez did almost exactly what I proposed in his
Amaranth addon. There are many other useful things in there, too, really
worth looking at:

http://pablovazquez.org/amaranth/



2013/8/8 Bassam Kurdali <bassam at urchn.org>

> Cool idea, also if approved might be à good candidate new Dev project?
>
>  Julian Herzog <julian.hzg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to point out that it is slightly unintuitive that the Object
> panel > Display > Transparency checkbox works with transparency in Blender
> Internal materials but not with anything in Cycles materials. So to make it
> work in a Cycles environment, you have to switch to BI, disable Nodes in
> the specific material, edit the Transparency value, switch nodes back on
> and change back to Cycles. I do this quite often but it's a little
> complicated. Also (and more importantly) if you have never used BI, there
> is no way to know how this is supposed to work.
>
> I want to propose a solution for this that would, in my eyes, be very
> simple and intuitive and that would hopefully require few changes:
>
> - Add an alpha value to the viewport color setting that any Cycles material
> has anyway.
> - Let this value control what is (was) controlled by the main alpha value
> in BI materials
> - Possibly activate the Display > Transparency checkbox by default as the
> Alpha value would be at a default value of 1 and has no other effect.
>
> To allow consistency across both engines, I actually think it would be
> helpful to add a Viewport Color setting to BI materials, too (that is
> synched), because the color you want in your material is more often than
> not not what you want in the viewport, same goes for the alpha value. But
> that's a different story altogether.
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
> Regards,
>
> Julian
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