{"id":955,"date":"2018-12-07T07:44:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T07:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/?p=955"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:54:02","slug":"limit-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/limit-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Limit Selection to Visible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a11e1db43e43\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a11e1db43e43\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/limit-selection\/#toggle-x-ray\" >Toggle X-Ray<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>For Blender <b>Toggle X-Ray<\/b> replaces <b>Limit selection to visible<\/b> and is now a global effect rather than being selection-specific to Edit Mode. When active the effect displays the entire contents of a scene semi-transparent or see-through. In other words back-faces and anterior objects are visible through those in front regardless.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Design note<\/b>: enabling <b>X-Ray<\/b> (Limit selection to visible) is not the same as using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/tag\/transparency\/\">transparent materials<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"toggle-x-ray\"><\/span>Toggle X-Ray<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>To activate or enable <b>Toggle X-Ray<\/b>, click the icon [1] to the left of the &#8216;render&#8217; buttons upper-right of the 3D View, or press <span class=\"shortcutkey\">Alt<\/span> + <span class=\"shortcutkey\">Z<\/span>. The entire scene, and all objects within, will immediately appear semi-transparent and see-through [2].<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #fc0; color: #000;\"><p><b>Important<\/b>: when active <b>X-Ray<\/b> is limited to <b>Wireframe<\/b> and <b>Solid<\/b> modes of Viewport Shading, it does not render in <b>Material Preview<\/b> or <b>Rendered<\/b> modes (for all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/render-engine\/\">Render Engines<\/a>). In addition the level of transparency used is not editable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/limit-selection\/toggle-x-ray.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/limit-selection\/toggle-x-ray.jpg\" alt=\"Toggle X-Ray (Limit selection to visible) displays the entire scene see-through\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Limit selection to visible, now <b>Toggle X-Ray<\/b> [1], effects the entire scene [2] and all interaction modes not just Edit Mode as per previous versions of Blender.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/limit-selection\/x-ray-texture-paint.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/limit-selection\/x-ray-texture-paint.jpg\" alt=\"Show whole scene transparent in texture Paint interaction mode\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>In <b>Texture Paint<\/b> Workspace [1] interaction mode with <b>Toggle X-Ray<\/b>, objects can still seen behind, and interacted with, the selected item [2] as its being painted.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,230],"tags":[431,433,432,268,732,220,731],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blender","category-tutorials","tag-limit-selection","tag-limit-selection-to-visible","tag-limit-visible","tag-opacity","tag-see-through","tag-transparency","tag-x-ray"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}