# Volume rendering from color slices

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-rendering-from-color-slices/6688>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 3, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-rendering-from-color-slices/6688 "2019-05-03T19:17:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-rendering-from-color-slices/6688/2 "2019-05-03T19:19:36Z")

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Direct volume rendering of RGBA volumes is very uncommon, so we did not expose it on the GUI. You can [enable it by typing a single line of code in the console](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/merge-colored-images-and-show-them-as-1-volume/6472/6).

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