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title: Creating a Scene with a Transparent Background
framework: spritekit
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path: spritekit/creating-a-scene-with-a-transparent-background
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# Creating a Scene with a Transparent Background

Set a transparent background color to show the content of the views below.

## Overview

Overview To overlay content rendered with SpriteKit on top of another view, follow these steps: Set the scene’s backgroundColor to clear. Enable allowsTransparency on the view. Set the view’s backgroundColor to clear.

## See Also

### Setting the Background Appearance

- [view](spritekit/skscene/view.md)
- [backgroundColor](spritekit/skscene/backgroundcolor.md)