# How to adjust the opacity of the mesh in a map

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-opacity-of-the-mesh-in-a-map/3041
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 25, 2019, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-opacity-of-the-mesh-in-a-map/3041 "2019-11-25T10:54:28Z")
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### Author: ![leo](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@leo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/leo)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-opacity-of-the-mesh-in-a-map/3041/1 "2019-11-25T10:54:28Z")

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Hi, I’d like to adjust the opacity of the mesh of map by rendering to get the mesh more transparent than the map. However, I can just adjust the backface’s opacity and I have no idea adjusting the opacity of the mesh, any suggestions? Here is my original map and the map I want to get.

 ![%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20191125184435](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/61ff11c349606a78ad9733dcb331fb49274e0f63.png)  
 ![%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20191125184410](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/1/160159f46f44f0f9b12bb65fa86ce9ea37307e15.png)

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-opacity-of-the-mesh-in-a-map/3041/2 "2019-11-25T10:56:38Z")

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Use the opacity property ?

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### Author: ![leo](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@leo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/leo)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-opacity-of-the-mesh-in-a-map/3041/3 "2019-11-25T11:01:57Z")

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I have tried it, but I could only adjust the whole map’s opacity(including mesh).I have no ideas adjusting the opacity of mesh individually.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-opacity-of-the-mesh-in-a-map/3041/4 "2019-11-25T12:14:58Z")

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What are you calling a mesh exactly ?