![]() ![]() (This is similar to the kind of effect I want in my math models.) This would give a cool effect where objects in the building have ghostly looks and fade off into the distance as you look through a wall. And let’s say I want everything inside the building to be white at 50% opacity on both sides. For simplicity’s sake, let’s say I want each side of the building a constant color but different from the other sides (BUT each side made up of many many faces with edges in between). Let’s say I want to represent each plane of glass with a flat face (with no thickness). Let’s say I’m making a 100 story building where everything in it, even the floors and ceilings are made of glass, and the color and opacity of the glass varies. What I’m actually doing is making a mathematical model to use at some conference talks, which is probably why my requests are weird, (since this program is more for architecture and stuff) so let me make up a different example that may relate my point. I’m okay with defining a new color, or whatever is entailed, to get faces to fill as desired as I make them. If I then change the front/back colors in the Styles window all the faces I drew change color (as you explained). I’d like them to be filled in with BOTH the color and the opacity that I picked. Then if I make some faces, they have the color indicated in the boxes (the ones I chose), but their opacity is 100% no matter what. They also reflect the opacity that I chose. If I select front/back face colors (in the Style window under the Edit heading), the boxes reflect the colors that I chose. ![]() ![]() Okay, I think I see what you mean though something still does not quite add up (thanks for your patience here). Also, if you are creating your own custom collections of materials, you can make them available when you switch to SketchUp 2018 and then to 2019 and… It would seem reasonable to edit the colors in the original file but if you did and you ever had reason to reinstall SketchUp, you would lose the collection and have to start over. Give it a name and you will have a new collection for future use. Once you have made the transparent materials you want to keep, click on the List menu and choose Duplicate. You can just paint that face repeatedly because the colors remain in the Colors in Model collection. Repeat that for any other colors you might want. Again, this will be in the Colors in Model collection. If you want to make a set of transparent materials for later use, open a new SketchUp file and draw a rectangle. If you want to keep that new one for later use, make a new collection containing it. When you apply and then edit the material, you are making a new one and it is in the Colors in Model collection, not the original collection. The color you’ve selected is in a library. ![]()
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