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1. Switch Between Material Opacity 100% and ?%

   

   Topic by Playdo · May 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   When I'm modeling off of blueprints, I'm constantly finding myself changing the material's opacity back and forth so I can see the blueprints when modeling (?%) and so I can see the form better (at 100%). Wireframe mode would be useful but the blueprints disappear when in this. Does anyone know a quick way to switch the…

2. Re: Switch Between Material Opacity 100% and ?%

   

   Reply by kdm3d · May 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   alt-x would switch the entire scene. no? one thing I've seen done is setting your material to animate. Frame 0 is 100% opacity, and frame 1 is ?% opacity. then you can just slide your frame over one for the transparent, and back for full. I believe you can hot key forward and back one frame... I think...

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   Reply by Piflik · May 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Put your Ref Planes in a new Layer and set te Layer's Shading Mode to Shaded...that way the Blueprints will stay shaded, even when you switch the Viewport to Wireframe.

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   Reply by Playdo · May 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Both great. Alt+X will do me fine. Thanks

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   Reply by Eric Chadwick · May 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Alt-x only sets the selected mesh to See-Through mode, which is untextured gray and semi-transparent. Oh, and the default hotkeys for Forward and Back are < and >.

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   Reply by kodde · May 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Aw man... and I thought I was the man. Coulda sworn I had checked the thread for this possibility in advance. T_T

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   Reply by kodde · May 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Someone did... a long time ago. Then they informed me and a couple of other highly trusted associates of mine (classmates). They also decided that this secret would be best kept only among us privileged ones and it was therefor best to not inform the rest of the world (you). That is until this lucky day of yours. :)

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   Reply by kodde · May 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'm supposing you're all talking Max right? Here's a nice tip that I use in Maya, should work the same in 3DSMax. Keyframe your materials opacity, use the timeslider as your virtal opacity slider. Set your opacity to whatever you want at that point in time, quickly and easily.

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   Reply by Piflik · May 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   I think he was refering to this ;)

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    Reply by Eric Chadwick · May 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

    Heheh, kdm3d mentioned it earlier in the thread.