MattG Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Is there a way that someone here has come up with to make a viewport have opacity to it? Basically I have two viewports of the same thing stacked on top of each other. I want the viewport in the back to be able to have the equivalent of a 30% opacity, all other rendering settings the same. Right now I'm playing with render styles to accomplish this but it is not really getting the desired effect. Anyone have any advice? Thanks, Matt Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted December 8, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 8, 2020 Have you tried applying Image Effects to the viewport and playing with those settings? That might do the trick. 1 Quote Link to comment
TomKen Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 What about drawing a rectangle over the rear viewport and applying an opacity to that. 1 Quote Link to comment
P Retondo Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 You need to create a design layer with "Overlay" transfer mode selected instead of "Paint." That layer when converted to a .pdf can have an assigned opacity by %, allowing you to vary its transparency. 1 Quote Link to comment
MattG Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 23 hours ago, Matt Panzer said: Have you tried applying Image Effects to the viewport and playing with those settings? That might do the trick. I tried but there is nothing in the Image Effects for opacity, but I really think there should be at some point because that or just being able to use opacity in the attributes pallet would do the trick. Matt Quote Link to comment
MattG Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 21 hours ago, P Retondo said: You need to create a design layer with "Overlay" transfer mode selected instead of "Paint." That layer when converted to a .pdf can have an assigned opacity by %, allowing you to vary its transparency. Well I consider myself a fairly advanced user and I have never really realized this is an option. Not really what I am looking for but good info. I am for simplicity sake just looking for something that takes a viewport on a sheet layer and lets me have a viewport at 30% opacity. I feel like there should be a simpler way to do that then doing that in the design layers etc. In the end I can do it in a adobe program after the face quickly, but I just have to believe there would be a simple way to do that. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted December 9, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 9, 2020 2 hours ago, MattG said: I tried but there is nothing in the Image Effects for opacity, but I really think there should be at some point because that or just being able to use opacity in the attributes pallet would do the trick. Do you really want to see through the viewport? It sounds to me you want to "lighten" the rendered viewport. If that's what you need, then adjusting the Exposure and saturation can do it easily. Quote Link to comment
Jeff Prince Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 @MattG I'm curious why TomKen's method doesn't work for you. It's a pretty effective trick that I use as well. On 12/8/2020 at 9:32 AM, TomKen said: What about drawing a rectangle over the rear viewport and applying an opacity to that. Quote Link to comment
P Retondo Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) Matt, I don't know what version you are using, but if it is recent, you can turn on GDI+Imaging (VW Preferences, Display tab, last option). Then you can set the opacity of a 2d object fill in the Attributes Palette. Placing a white rectangle with opacity around 70% would give the effect of a grayed-out look to the object below. If you want a viewport that shows object below it, you have to assign a layer transparency (if GDI+Imaging is "on") or assign a transfer mode of "Overlay" to the layer if GDI+Imaging is "off." Edited December 9, 2020 by P Retondo Quote Link to comment
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