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By gcshep - 11 Years Ago

I ‘am working on a Star Trek beam me up type of story and would like to fade out my avatar at the same time as the shrink particle fades out can anyone please suggest a method to carry out this action out because I ‘am having a problem trying to think of away or is there a video out showing how it is done.

Best Regards

George

By wires - 11 Years Ago

Not too easy to do in iClone. You need to reduce the opacity of every part of the avatar - upper, lower, hair, skin etc., etc.

You can also do the dissolve down in an NLE if you export one scene complete with the beam, but minus the avatar and a second scene with only the avatar on a green or blue background. Lay the avatar clip over the main scene clip and dissolve the avatar out when needed.

If the avatar is inside the beam then in order for everything to look right you need a main scene clip minus beam and avatar. A green/blue screen scene with the fading beam and a green/blue scene with just the avatar.

Place the main scene on one video track, add the avatar clip above this and then place the beam on top. Key out the green/blue backgrounds and fade the avatar track out in time with the beam fade.

By gcshep - 11 Years Ago

Thank you for that Gerry I think I might give the NLE method ago.

By gcshep - 11 Years Ago

Well gave NLE ago not really impressed with end result.

Doe's anyone else have any ideas please

By The Mythical Dragon - 11 Years Ago

Is this what you are trying to do?

The method here was turning the visibility on and off in the time line.

To fade in and out you would have to lower the opacity of each section... upper, lower, shoes, etc... The only way I know how to do it within iClone.

By gcshep - 11 Years Ago

Thank you Doug that is just the job I purchased it just now from market place this will save me alot of head banging time.

Regards

George

By JC Weatherby - 11 Years Ago

I was just creating an effect like this the other day in iClone, using Visibility key-framing and the aurora particle effect. It turned out really well, but I do wish there was a master opacity adjuster for everything in a scene, including whole avatars. It would enhance the effect, and eliminate the need to render out a bunch of elements for composition in a NLE, or Compositor like After Effects.

By Rampa - 11 Years Ago

Fading out the upper, lower, etc. is pretty straight forward. You just use the opacity slider under the material section.

The eyes, mouth, tongue, teeth, eyelashes require that you load a black image into the "opacity" channel, and then ramp it up and down using the "Strength" slider. There is no option to adjust the material on these elements, you only get access to there texture channels.