Transparency in sketch render

[Erich]

I am having an issue where a model initially sketch rendered glass with transparency off - but now will only render with transparency on.

Is there a setting, other than the transparency toggle in the 3D window Settings, that controls transparency in a sketch render?

[Laszlo Nagy]

You should update to build 4020 of AC18. This was a bug that was fixed in this latest update:

177419 DOCUMENT: There was no transparency in Sketch Render option

http://www.graphisoft.com/downloads/archicad/updates/AC18/ImprovementsList.html#4020

[Erich]

Nope, not it. My signature is just out of date - my archicad is fully up to date.

[Laszlo Nagy]

So you are saying that you still have transparency issues with Sketch rendering even in AC18 update 4020?
Can you give step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce it?
The guys at GS would probably be interested in it.

[Erich]

Yup, that's what I am saying. The funny thing is I have an earlier rendering I did in the project that worked fine. It has just stopped working recently - so I thought I changed some setting without realizing it.

Procedure is pretty straight forward. Go to a saved 3D view with transparency turned off. Go to the render settings. I have a predefined sketch render style that I use so select that (I also tried a number of the predefined sketch ones as well with the same result), and set it rendering. A few seconds later, I have a render by the windows are all transparent in the render. They are still opaque in the 3D window view. They do render opaque if I use the CineRender engine rather than the Sketch render engine.

I will have to try in a different project to see if it is just this one, or if it is all of them. But that is probably tomorrow's activity.

[Erwin Edel]

I have experienced the same problem.

[Erich]

Glad to know I am not alone. I have yet to try in a different project. Perhaps today.

[Matt Balaam]

We are having the same issue, it doesn't seem to be possible to complete a sketch render with opaque glass unless you manually modify the surface to be opaque. We are also using build 4020.

[adamsb]

Hey, has anyone had any luck on this since? I'm still having unwanted transparency in my sketch renderings, and am hoping someone has found a way around this. I'm on build 4020 as well.

Thanks for your help!

[MMontgomery]

We are experiencing the same issue, with different results on different computers. 3 PCs, all AC 18 Build 5100. From the same PLN, 2 PCs will complete the sketch render with transparency, and one does not.

Any thoughts?

Can provide further info if needed.

Thank you!

Mike