Change Opacity Settings

  • Updated on Dec 10, 2025
  • Published on Nov 6, 2025
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Changing the opacity percentage in the Beast Core 6 3D Viewer Settings plugin allows you to customize the look of loaded 3D Models to suit your viewing purposes.

How to Change Opacity Settings

  1. Load your desired Systems or Component groups on the 3D Viewer Settings → Groups tab.

    NOTE

    See the Load Your Workspace article for additional information.

  2. Left click the color palette icon next to name of the loaded system you want to modify.

  1. The current Opacity percentage displays in the color picker menu:

    • Numerically - In the editable percentage textbox

      • Defaults to

    • Positionally - As a white circle on the opacity slider

  2. To change the opacity percentage, either:

    • Left click inside the editable numerical percentage textbox, then:

      • Use the backspace key to erase the current percentage, then manually enter a desired percentage

      • Or left click the down (or up) arrow until you reach the desired percentage

    • Or left click and drag the opacity slider to the desired percentage

      • The percentage dynamically changes in the numerical textbox when you release the mouse

When to Change Opacity Settings

  1. To view loaded 3D Models of systems and components in the context of their environment:

    • Ensure the Hull is one of the loaded items on the 3D Viewer Settings → Groups tab

    • Change the loaded hull opacity to (or less)

  2. To select (highlight) components in a 3D Model to learn more about them:

    • Leave all loaded systems (excluding the hull) at the default opacity

      NOTE

      Modeled components in systems set to less than 100% opacity are not selectable.

  3. To see behind, around, beyond, or within certain modeled components:

    • Ensure your desired systems are loaded on the 3D Viewer Settings → Groups tab

    • Reduce the opacity of each relevant system individually by:

      • Left clicking the color palette icon beside each system that needs an opacity change

      • Setting your desired opacity percentage in each system’s pop-up color picker window

        • IMPORTANT: This action disables your ability to select components within those systems

    • Use your mouse and keyboard controls to navigate within the 3D Model

      NOTE

      Reset a system’s opacity percentage to 100% to make its components selectable again.