Transparency Tool: Apply transparency to children (nested objects) as well

[TheGrudge]

Hi,

when I have an object with nested objects, using the transparency tool on the "parent" object only applies the transparency to the parent object:

The only workaround I found is creating a group and put this object into the group. Applying the transparency on the group seems to fix the issue.
Is this the intended workflow for doing something like this?

[firstdefence]

Not sure, but there are some inconsistencies with Layer fx i.e. you can apply a gaussian blur and all shapes blur but when applying 3D only the parent gets edge definition. I'm guessing that anything in a group inherits parent attributes and is affected by any action performed on the group, unfortunately that logic falls a bit flat when you apply a 3d fx to a group and only the parent layer gets the 3d fx. It is a bit confusing.

In your case you are adding transparency to a shape, so why would the child layer/s be affected, grouping even a single shape with child shapes kind of unlocks the potential of the effect to affect any layer that resides in a group. It does seem a bit odd but there is a kind of logic to it and it gives some control. Personally I think the Lock/Unlock feature should be expanded so that you can lock a layer from inheriting effects .

[btown]

Having a similar issue - have files where I've changed opacity/density on the mask and now the whole layer is being affected by this opacity change rather than the mask / nested part. Having to rejig a whole lot of my files now and invert the mask/layers etc which is a right pain. 

[Dan C]

Hi TheGrudge

This behaviour is to be expected, I've double checked with our devs and they've informed me that this is the correct way of applying this, as the child object does not automatically inherit the transparent gradient being applied.

As you've mentioned, if you group the object first, then apply the transparency, this adds the gradient to the 'group' object, which applies to both Parent and Child object. 

The app does this so that you have the choice of applying to one or all of the objects clipped - as if the transparency tool applied to both Parent and Child outside of a group, there would be no way of achieving the 'incorrect' results.

I hope this helps!

[TheGrudge]

Thanks for all the answers. If this is the expected behavior, I have to learn this new workflow (which is fine by me). 🙂