Transparency in Scenes Question

[Miko Miles]

I have found that if I display a scene with "Overlay. Blocking" that has a transparent background which includes Text elements, whichever one is at depth 1 will always have a semi-transparent background. It's not a setting of the element itself, because if I change another text element to depth 1, that element will now have a semi-transparent background and the previous element's background is now fully transparent. The only workaround I have found is to put a dummy text element at depth 1 with 0 x 0 dimensions effectively hiding it (actually hiding it doesn't work).  Is this a bug or a feature?

[Dave W]

I think depth 1 means the element is BEHIND all other elements.  It sounds like you have an extraneous semi-transparent element on top of your buttons that you need to remove. If you want to have a "background" element, then set the background's depth to 1.   HTH

[Miko Miles]

The scene only has 2 elements so there is nothing extraneous. 2 text elements. Whichever one is depth 1 (in back) takes on a semitransparent background.

[Dave W]

Tell me the values of all depths that are listed when you select to change depth.

[Miko Miles]

1 and 2. 

[Dave W]

Are both "buttons" text elements?

[Dave W]

Also...did you click "Set as backround" for any element(s)?  If you did I probably can't help you because I don't have any experience doing that.

[Miko Miles]

They aren't "buttons". They're just text and nothing is set to background. There are only 2 elements in an otherwise blank scene with a transparent background.

[Dave W]

Okay I'm stumped.