Plotting a transparent planes/boxes with Makie

I’m looking for a way to plot simple planes with Makie.
The only solution I found so far is this:

using Makie

p1 = Point3(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
p2 = Point3(0.0, 1.0, 0.0)
p3 = Point3(0.0, 1.0, 1.0)
p4 = Point3(0.0, 0.0, 1.0)

sc = mesh([p1, p2, p3], color = :blue, shading = false)
mesh!(sc, [p1, p4, p3], color = :blue, shading = false)

Which gives me:

I would be happy with this result, but I cannot change it’s transparency (the alpha keyword doesn’t have any effect). The result I’d like to achieve is something like the picture at the bottom of the RegionTrees package’s page: a couple of transparent planes (or boxes).

As my final goal would be to visualize octrees, another idea came in mind, while writing this post:

using Makie
using GeometryTypes: HyperRectangle

hr = HyperRectangle(Vec3f0(0), Vec3f0(1))
mesh(hr)

The problem with this is also the lack of transparency. Is this a bug in Makie? Or should I plot planes/cubes with other functions?

The bug is, that the alpha keyword isn’t implemented yet :smiley:
But you can use plot(..., color = (:blue, 0.1), transparency = true), or any other transparent Colors.Colorant

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Ohh, I didn’t expected that :smiley:. Thanks for the workaround!