Layout is rendering colour/color when I hide background (updated to help others' searches)

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In LO22, I often superimpose 2 different scenes from the same model to get a different foreground and background style.
In LO23, when I untick “background” to make the background disappear on the “top layer”, it renders the background of the top layer in turquoise instead of transparent so I can’t see the under layer. It’s the same turquoise as if a render is out of date, but it has definitely been rendered.
What am I doing wrong? :woman_shrugging:

  • Scene style is Hidden Line. (Have tried various)
  • In the SU scene style there is no Sky, no Ground, no watermarks, no fog (all unticked) and transparency is set to Nicer.
  • There are no overides in LO model settings except for unticking the “background” box in style.
  • I’ve tried rendering in Raster, Vector and Hybrid rendering - background remains opaque turquoise.
  • Document properties Display Resolution in LO is set to high, high, high, high.

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Does this show on screen or in output to printer or PDF?

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For info…

Background: Ticked and rendered

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Background: Unticked and rendered (nothing else changed)

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Share the LO file so we can see how it is set up.

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Great question! I’ve just tried and :cry: it comes out with the same opaque blue/turquoise background and no sight of the scene below.

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Give me a mo - just removing the confidential bits.

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Too big for upload I’m afraid (or at least the associated SU file is?). Does this work for you, @DaveR ?
Dropbox file link

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Looks like the link worked.

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Did you try turning off the Shapestyle fill of the viewport?

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Select the viewport, then disable the Fill, and you should be good.

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You have Fill enabled in Shape Style and the color set to the cyan color you’re seeing.

FWIW, you have two viewports stacked on top of each other. I would suggest putting each one on its own layer in LayOut so you can access the one underneath without moving the one on top.

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Another case solved. Good job team!

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I was about to feel bad slipping in the solution right before you, but then saw you have nearly 2,000 solutions :dizzy_face:

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No worries. :wink:

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Thanks a mill for your help.
Yip - I usually do put them on different layers.

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Thanks for this.
So obvious now :see_no_evil: :crazy_face:
Turns out I have that weird blue fill in every viewport across tons of documents - must have been in the original template.