idea Basemap transparency setting in ArcGIS Earth Ideas

Basemap transparency setting

GISAdminSHN — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:38:29 GMT

Add a transparency option either in basemap settings or in the layer settings when imagery from ArcGIS Online is added to the contents.

Re: Basemap transparency setting

YongweiKang — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 05:37:18 GMT

There are 2 ways to change the layer transparency:

Right-click the layer in the table of contents, you can change the layer transparency at Properties-> Appearance.
Click the Underground mode button on the right side, you can configure the transparency of the ground.

Do these two options meet your needs?

Re: Basemap transparency setting

GISAdminSHN — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:56:06 GMT

@YongweiKang thanks! The ground transparency setting works for me. When I add the imagery through add data so that it shows up in the table of contents, there is no appearance tab in the properties (probably because it treats it as a basemap even though it's now in the table of contents as well.)

Re: Basemap transparency setting

YongweiKang — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 01:21:39 GMT

@GISAdminSHN I'm glad to hear that the ground transparency setting works for you. If the added layer shows up in the table of contents, and it is an imagery layer, the appearance tab in the properties should show up. See the below screenshot and the test data.

https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=aa9c87d6f17b452296252bd75005f6a4

Which version of Earth are you using? I'm sure we have supported it for a long time. But feel free to use our latest version 1.18.

Best,

Yongwei

Re: Basemap transparency setting

GISAdminSHN — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:32:05 GMT

@YongweiKang 1.18

So, it turns out the imagery layer I added was actually a "Web Map" <facepalm>. When the imagery is actually an image service, the Appearance tab is there no problem! 😄 Thanks for the help!