Ambient light setting = transparent solid fill in VP's

[M5d]

Has anyone experienced a problem that occurs where increasing the ambient light in a viewport causes solid filled white surfaces or the white components of textured surfaces to become transparent? I often want to lighten a render but come across this threshold which lets object sent behind the render bleed through. It's not a big problem, masking, clipping or reducing the light setting all get around the issue but I wonder if this is a bug or if there is a valid reason for the behavior.

[Benson Shaw]

Tried it with RW glass texture set to white color and no transparency. At 35% ambient light, the glass is not transparent. No transparency at 100% ambient.

Can you post a file with a few objects which illustrate the problem?

-B

[Dave Donley]

Hello M5d:

It is a feature of VW that bitmap objects with None fill draw transparent where the pixels are white. Set the viewport's fill to solid to disable this behavior.

[M5d]

Thanks Dave, that fixed the problem.

Thanks also Benson, I had just set up a drawing to illustrate what happens when I came back to find the answer.