making parent invisible but remain visible

cone

I wanted to build an editor and wanted make selected node visible while other is made invisible ? how can i do that ?

DaveTheCoder

You could set the parent's Self Modulate property to transparent (alpha channel == 0), assuming it's a CanvasItem.

TwistedTwigleg

@DaveTheCoder said:
You could set the parent's Self Modulate property to transparent (alpha channel == 0), assuming it's a CanvasItem.

I've done this probably too many times
I can confirm it works though and is a viable strategy if you want to make a parent CanvasItem invisible but keep it's children visible.