topic Re: How to make object in viewport appear transparent? in Maya Forum

How to make object in viewport appear transparent?

Anonymous — Sat, 23 May 2015 15:41:57 GMT

For example, I'm working on an eyeball and the outermost layer I need to appear mostly transparent in viewport 2.0.

Any ideas?

Re: How to make object in viewport appear transparent?

damaggio — Sat, 23 May 2015 16:26:08 GMT

Why don't you make the blinn transparent?

Re: How to make object in viewport appear transparent?

Anonymous — Sat, 23 May 2015 16:53:57 GMT

Because it's not a blinn shader, it's an Arnold standard shader

Re: How to make object in viewport appear transparent?

damaggio — Sat, 23 May 2015 17:41:05 GMT

You could have told us that very important piece of information from the begining John...I don't use Arnold and I don't know how much Viewport supports Arnold nodes.

Maybe someone else can chimme in on this.

Good luck.

Re: How to make object in viewport appear transparent?

Anonymous — Sun, 24 May 2015 01:58:22 GMT

Can I get it to use a blinn but render the arnold shader?

Re: How to make object in viewport appear transparent?

pshwayka — Sun, 24 May 2015 03:09:09 GMT

Why don't you just try it?

Re: How to make object in viewport appear transparent?

Anonymous — Sun, 24 May 2015 03:39:01 GMT

I did but I don't know how.

Re: How to make object in viewport appear transparent?

pshwayka — Sun, 24 May 2015 15:37:03 GMT

The easiest way would be to use render layers. In the master layer, apply a blinn shader to the outer layer of the eyeball and crank up the transparency, as damaggio suggested. Then select everything in your scene, and assign it all to a new render layer. In the new render layer, assign your AI Standard material to the outer eyeball material. This will override the blinn in that layer.

Select the master render layer when you want the outer eye to appear transparent in Viewport 2.0. Select layer 1 when you are ready to render.

Re: How to make object in viewport appear transparent?

Anonymous — Mon, 25 May 2015 00:17:25 GMT

Thank you so much dude!

Little bootleg, but it works all the same!!!

Re: How to make object in viewport appear transparent?

pshwayka — Mon, 25 May 2015 02:33:37 GMT

No problem. Glad it made sense!