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Introduction

Alpha controls an instance's transparency. A fully opaque instance has an Alpha of 255. A fully transparent instance has an Alpha of 0.

Alpha and Children

By default the Alpha property affects the selected instance only - it does not cascade down to its children. For example, the following shows a parent white ColoredRectangle with a child blue ColoredRectangle. If the white ColoredRectangle's Alpha property changes, the BlueRectangle's opacity does not change.

A parent can affect its children's transparency if the parent is a container with Is Render Target set to true. For example, if the white rectangle is added to a Container, the Container can make its entire contents transparent.

Note that by setting Is Render Target to true, the entire container's Alpha can be adjusted rather rather than the alpha value cascading to each individual child. This Alpha value is used to control transparency after all children have been drawn. We can see the difference between a partially-transparent Container and each child individually being made partially transparent by overlapping two children ColoredRectangles.

The rectangles on the left each have an Alpha value of 255. These rectangles are in a Container Is Render Target set to true and an Alpha set to 128.

The rectangles on the right each have an Alpha of 128, so the red rectangle is visible behind the blue rectangle.

An object's transparency is a combination of its Alpha, , and its . Skia elements may also have transparent portions due to their shape (such as and ) as well as .

Blend
Source File
ColoredCircle
RoundedRectangle
dropshadows
Sprites with Alpha of 255, 200, 150, 100, 50, and 0
Parent Alpha does not change child opacity
Entire Container Alpha makes all children transparent
Container Alpha on the left, individual Alpha on the right