Making Transparent Objects On A Layer...how? - Rhino For Windows

Maybe your like

Rhino Rhino for Windows Steve1 February 14, 2015, 1:25am 1 Hi V5 I need some objects very translucent as I need them for reference only and not in the way of lines I need to draw ‘within them’Ghost or x ray mode is not what I need as all objects then go as such and thats not of use to me.Is there a way to control translucency of a certain layer, I need them really ghosty, more so than x ray or ghosted does.Steve2 Likes Fred_C February 14, 2015, 2:11am 2 SetObjectDisplayMode2 Likes Steve1 February 14, 2015, 3:37am 3

SetObjectDisplayMode

Hi, Cheers I’ll try that.Draw cube above a sphere, select cube, type SetObjectDisplayMode hit M chose X rayI cant see my grid through the cube or the sphere under ittry again and choose ghosted, again cant see grid, seems very opaque. like nothing happened.in fact its not even like the xray or ghosted views and I expected at least that.How do I control the transparency of this independent of the display modes, I need this with much more transparency.Steve mvyess February 14, 2015, 9:23am 4 Hi @Steve1, Go into Rhino Properties (File-Properties-Rhino Options-View-Display Modes), and make a copy of the display mode you like the general look of. eg. Shaded. Go to the Shaded copy and Change the name to something eg. Transparent In Color & Material usage set this to Objects Color. Below this you can set the transparency. Click OK Now in Rhino when you use the SetObjectDisplayMode, you can select the new Display Mode you have just made. If it isn’t transparent enough, then go into the display mode and adjust the transparency of you new display mode until it suits your needs. I would also make a new button with the following on to quickly reset all the selected objects back to normal, because the setdisplaymode command is ‘sticky’ and the mode stays with the object until you reset it again. SetObjectDisplayMode Mode UseView Michael VS2 Likes Steve1 March 3, 2015, 3:40pm 5 Hi,

Go into Rhino Properties (File-Properties-Rhino Options-View-Display Modes), and make a copy of the display mode you like the general look of. eg. Shaded.

How do I make a copy of the shaded display mode ?Steve Willem (Willem Derks) March 3, 2015, 4:03pm 6

How do I make a copy of the shaded display mode ?

Here you go:HTH -Wilem BrianM March 3, 2015, 7:01pm 7 Or if you don’t want to create a new display mode and just apply to one object…

1 Like Steve1 March 3, 2015, 8:46pm 8 Hi, Copy now made, I have altered the transparency setting to 50% see screenshot, however running SetObjectDisplayMode and choosing Transparent Shaded with object selected sees no change.BrianM…is that for the Rendered window , or possible whilst in shaded view ?,I tried selecting object in shaded view then selecting ‘toothpaste’ icon (!) and object and transparency but nothing.run SetObjectDisplayMode and choose rendered then do that and yes success, but:-

object now gray 2:0 how do I get it back to coloured and not transparent afterwards ?

Steve BrianM March 3, 2015, 9:05pm 9

object now gray

Did you adjust the transparency in the material dialog? - you can also change the colour here as this object is now rendered. The object will remain ‘rendered and transparent’ regardless of displaymode.To return the object to it’s previous condition, run SetObjectDisplayMode again and choose the ‘UseView’ option. Steve1 July 11, 2020, 7:13pm 10 Hi, V5 I have just come to refer to this thread needing to do whats in it again and all images are gone, can the posters put back what was there please. (one of 6000 images that got lost I am told, and to re-ask/post to fix)CheersSteve BrianM July 11, 2020, 10:36pm 11 Hi Steve, see if you can follow this1 select object 2 assign a custom material to it 3 rename material - i.e.’ transparent’ 4 adjust transparency for new material 5 ‘SetObjectDisplayMode’ for still selected object and set to rendered

Steve1 July 11, 2020, 11:37pm 12 Hi, will that work as I draw objects on that layer or must they be finished closed surfaces etc.?CheersSteve BrianM July 12, 2020, 2:29am 13 The method above is meant to apply the transparent material to the surface, not to the layer, however, if you apply that material to a layer and draw in rendered mode with that layer as current, then new surfaces will be transparent (while in rendered mode). The surfaces don’t have to be closed, by the way.A convenient way to toggle a surface between transparent and normal is to have a custom button, provided the custom transparent material is already applied to the surfaces.

image705×151 3.53 KB3 Likes rhino25 (Paul Bodensiek) January 8, 2021, 3:33pm 14 Thank you BrianM. Works like a charm for me and does exactly what I need! pascal (Pascal Golay) January 8, 2021, 5:12pm 15 Note V7 accepts layer and object colors with alpha - this allows transparency in other display modes.-Pascal JOK April 27, 2021, 3:43pm 16 Thanks Brian Elia_Hvalic (Elia Hvalic) March 6, 2025, 3:24pm 17 If i want to set a custom display mode using SetObjectDisplayMode, i can only select the preprogrammed display modes. I cannot select the custom ones. (I only want to Apply this custom displaymode to one object) Is there a solution to that? Japhy (Japhy) March 6, 2025, 3:28pm 18 Hi Elia,Please run SystemInfo command in Rhino and post the result.

i can only select the preprogrammed display modes

Can you elaborate? using the SetObjectDisplayMode command or via Object Properties is working as expected.

image2207×699 200 KB Elia_Hvalic (Elia Hvalic) May 13, 2025, 8:02am 19 Thank’s for your response! I imported some custom display modes from another rhino installation. (See C1, C3, C4 in the image) They are only visible on the vieport dropdown, but not in the Object properties panel. I saw that when i create new copys of display modes, they are visible in the object properties panel (See C5 in both images). I work a lot with imported display modes. It would be good if i can select them in the object properties as well. C1, C3, C4 are missing in the object properties panel (these display modes were imported).

Screenshot 2025-05-13 095628348×375 7.34 KB

Screenshot 2025-05-13 095639387×379 17 KB Japhy (Japhy) May 13, 2025, 10:47am 20 Hi Elia,I’m not seeing this behavior.In the Other Settings of the display mode are these settings enabled?