Making a single object with default color transparent

[endlessfix]

Actually your gif helped, I think I have it… standby.

indeed I had to watch the gif again. You are opening the component to paint it. don’t.

You are only painting the front face material and leaving the backface material untouched by doing this, as I said earlier. Put the bronze onto the outside of the component then you will replace all the default material front and back.

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If you are painting the faces with a solid material, you need to reverse the faces and paint them too, then you should be able to edit it to transparent. Or paint the group itself with one of the glass materials to begin with.

[lt72884]

now wait a minute. i have always been taught to paint INSIDE the group or component and not on the outside because it will cause issues further down the road… haha

[lt72884]

ill try it out in a moment

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The menu item offscreen is just Reverse faces.

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@lt72884

now wait a minute. i have always been taught to paint INSIDE the group or component and not on the outside because it will cause issues further down the road… haha

Not necessarily problems down the road. Applying a material to the outside of a component or the faces inside the same component do very different things. There is an appropriate use case for each.

No Texture Option On Certain Faces

Happy to answer any questions, but reply to the thread with a new post instead of editing an older post, or I might not see the new question. It might be useful for you to explore leveraging the properties of groups and components in relation to materials. In short, a material applied to a surface on the inside of a component will override any color applied to the outside. So if you make a fresh component with the default material (or lack of material) and apply the paint bucket to the compon…

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Thanks all. I will be teying these tomorrow. I just got off work and im spent for the night. Ill report back.