How do I make a transparent material display in the 3D view?

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How do I make a transparent material always display? I have turned the transparency on but its clearly not showing in the 3D view. enter image description here

gandalf3 · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-14T03:19:43.507

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In Cycles/Eevee and 2.8+ you need to set the Blend Mode to Alpha Blend in the Material Settings:

Then set the viewport render level to Material or Rendered.

In older versions of blender:

Enable Transparency in Properties > Object > Display:

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edited May 14 '21 at 03:19

answered Aug 03 '14 at 18:04

gandalf3

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I never new about that one, nice work!!!!. – GiantCowFilms Aug 04 '14 at 02:40
Sorry for resurrecting this topic but things have changed. Where the transparency option on blender 2.92? – Carlos May 13 '21 at 01:00
@Carlos No need to apologize! In 2.92 it's in the material settings, try this answer: https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/197024/599 – gandalf3 May 14 '21 at 03:13

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 03 '14 at 17:22

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You need to set your view mode to either Rendered or Texture. enter image description here

If you set it to textured, you will need to change your Shading to GLSL in the properties panel (N).

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answered Aug 03 '14 at 17:22

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How do I make a transparent material display in the 3D view?

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