Transparency for materials

Another type of property for materials that you will probably want to use in your projects is transparency. How do we create transparent materials? Before we go further, showing shaders for transparent materials, it is important to state something about transparency.

At the moment, Eevee won't display real-time transparency on your 3D View. You will have to swap renders to Cycles.

To change your render, you can go to the Render panel and in the Render Engine choose Cycles, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.7: Changing the renderer

Once you change to Cycles and keep your 3D View shading as rendered, you ...

Get Blender Quick Start Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.