Transparency in 2.8

Support Modeling
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To get an object in sculpt mode to be transparent in 2.8, I was doing this:

Set Viewport Shading to Solid (Icon to the right of the wireframe icon). Click the Object. Go to Material Properties. Click ‘New’. Scroll down to Viewport Display & click Color. Adjust the ‘A’ (which stands for Alpha) value.

It was working great, again and again until I couldn’t get it to work again. Some global setting must have changed. Any suggestions about what I’m doing wrong?
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Maybe you changed the Viewport Shading color to something else than material, in the dropdown near the “Rendered” bubble.

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I wasn’t sure at first what you meant. I found that changing from Sculpting to Shading cured it. image

I dug deeper based on what you said and think that this is it.

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If I use anything else as a shader, like a matcap, will transparency not work?

Many thanks for a solution.

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Yes, it won’t work, because you change the transparency in the material so you have to tell the viewport to actually use that transparent material. I’m glad it helped!