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Animation, how do you unhide an item part way through?

victorvictor Posts: 49
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I'm trying to make something appear part way through an animation. Is there a way to do that without moving it in from an off set location?

 

Thanks

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,739

    Not directly, no. You could use a post load script to create a link between an animatable property and the opacity on a surface, but the usual method would be two sequences - even hogh -end applications have only relatively recently gained this kind of feature.

  • victorvictor Posts: 49

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Not directly, no. You could use a post load script to create a link between an animatable property and the opacity on a surface, but the usual method would be two sequences - even hogh -end applications have only relatively recently gained this kind of feature.

    Ok thanks!

  • 31415926543141592654 Posts: 975
    edited March 2023

    If you mean you want to fade something in ... the easy way would be to render it separately, then use a fade-in feature on the program you are using to make the video compilation.

    Another option, but a lot of work, is to individually render each frame of the fade-in and change the opacity each time.

    Or, as mentioned above, there are scripts out there that try to make this work ... but I have not worked with them.

    Or, if you are also using other programs, most will let opacity be an animateable setting which makes it simple ... but Daz does not do that.

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  • tfistfis Posts: 129

    victor said:

    I'm trying to make something appear part way through an animation. Is there a way to do that without moving it in from an off set location?

     

    Thanks

     

    On Github is a plugin which makes the visibility button animatable.

    https://github.com/spacecat56/AniVis

  • victorvictor Posts: 49

    tfis said:

    victor said:

    I'm trying to make something appear part way through an animation. Is there a way to do that without moving it in from an off set location?

     

    Thanks

     

    On Github is a plugin which makes the visibility button animatable.

    https://github.com/spacecat56/AniVis

    Whoa!

    And thanks everyone for the advice.

  • Pickle RendererPickle Renderer Posts: 236

    Does that plugin "remember" the visibility status in saved/loaded .duf files?  I think I used an mcasual script to animate visibility and if I remember correctly it "forgot" the keys on reload.

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