# Animated Transparency?

**URL:** <https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/animated-transparency/1269>\
**Category:** dev\
**Created:** [April 25, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/animated-transparency/1269 "2019-04-25T23:22:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![subterfuge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@subterfuge](https://discourse.ioquake.org/u/subterfuge)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/animated-transparency/1269/1 "2019-04-25T23:22:34Z")

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So I’ve been working on a mod that allows ironsights on weapons. When the weapon is scoped up, I want to fade in a semi transparent model while fading out the 100% opaque model.

I have the transparent model rendered correctly in the game, similarly to how one’s nose disappears between their eyes from their perspective, but I have no way to actually fade it in. Animmap sounds like a potential idea, but I’m limited to only 8 images, and I can’t set it so that the game would transition smoothly at any point. Is there a way to do this properly?