Hi All,

Anyone know of an easy way to fade out a character's visibility?

The few times I had to do it, I've done so by keyframing all the character's materials. But it seems like there should be an easier way. Is there?




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Not that I know of. I've used the same method. It least now all relevant materials are in one list. It's not great because there is a difference in the "fade out" quality of different materials.

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I was thinking the exact same thing, and you provided proof it works.
Thanks!

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I've noticed the varying fadeout speeds of the various materials as well.



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Thank you, Mark,

That's exactly how I solved the problem the first time I'd run into it. I might go back to that method. It takes forever to select all the materials on a character. 




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By the way, now I'm watching the whole thing -- AWESOME work!

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Thanks! And the silly little project actually served a purpose!!! Who knew??!!:P:P:P



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As far as I know you can use the character's Opacity to make them fade out.

I used this technique to sort of fade one version of the character into another using the following method:

1. Insert character one
2. Insert character two in the same space as character one
3. On the time line, at frame 1, add a key frame for character one and set the Opacity to 100
4. On the time line, at frame 1, add a key frame for character two and set the Opacity to 0
5. On the time line, at frame 300 (for example), add a key frame for character one and set the Opacity to 0
6. On the time line, at frame 300 (for example), add a key frame for character two and set the Opacity to 100

In you case all you would do is the one character.

I don't recall, at the moment (without the project open) if I had to set the Opacity of each character's material (e.g. Face, Body, etc) individually or if I managed to apply the Opacity to the overall character.


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