Hiding outfits? Why are materials not part of the timeline naturally?

wscottart

Is there a way without buying additional resources to keyframe an outfit showing on in one fram, and off in the next. This would allow me compare outfits easily in one file?  This would be easy if cutout was animateable as I feel it should be. Using 4.21.1.80

I know I could create iterations of the file, but what a pain to keep track especially if I come back to the file or files months later.

WendyLuvsCatz

I can do this in Carrara 

no help I know, just bragging 

Pickle Renderer

I think MCasual has a script that allows you to animate things like that.  It's called matAnim.  All his stuff is free, on his Google site.

Pickle Renderer

Actually now I think about it there's a way to animate visibility, though if I remember correctly this wasn't remembered through a file save.  It's a little script:

 

var item = Scene.getPrimarySelection();

if ( item ) {

    var vis = item.findPropertyByLabel( "Visible" );

    if ( vis ) {

        vis.setCanAnimate( true );

    }

}

WendyLuvsCatz

yeah you did say materials not whole meshes

funny thing is a parameter exists for visibility on the D|S timeline but unlike Carrara, iClone and Blender clicking visibility doesn't create a keyframe

wscottart

WendyLuvsCatz said:

yeah you did say materials not whole meshes

funny thing is a parameter exists for visibility on the D|S timeline but unlike Carrara, iClone and Blender clicking visibility doesn't create a keyframe

I would be happy to hide the entire mesh as well.

wscottart

Pickle Renderer said:

I think MCasual has a script that allows you to animate things like that.  It's called matAnim.  All his stuff is free, on his Google site.

Will certainly try this

Richard Haseltine

There are a couple of sample scripts that show how to add a node via script that has a link to a non-aniamtable (e.g. material) property

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/elements/post_load_material_proxy_create/start
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/elements/post_load_material_proxy_link_properties/start