Set color transparency

Questions & Problems
#1

I have color cycle and want one of the colors in the cycle to be transparent. They all have to be in sequence so I could line them up after the 1 index entry with alpha, but its a very painful to rearrange the palette this way.

Is there any way to set a color in the palette’s alpha?

#2

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To further illustrate what I’m after - Imagine I would like the purple background to show through where I have the deep red color. How could you do that?

#3

I have figured out one way to do this but its a hack - make a ani brush with the 4th frame empty. Works but doesn’t look as good. Would love to achieve this only using color cycle.

#4

Possible solutions could be:

  • Let the user make any color in the palette transparent
  • Color cycles can use any colors in the palette and do not need to be adjacent
#5

So, the transparent color index should move through the palette with every step at the position, where currently the red slot is?

#6

Yes, you can get this to work using the one transparent color in the palette, the problem is what if i want to have more than 1 color cycle? Its also hard to organize your palette around 1 transparent color. Hence proposed the following solutions:

  • Let the user make any color in the palette transparent
  • Color cycles can use any colors in the palette and do not need to be adjacent

I think this would make the flexibility and user experience of the app much better.