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Animating transparency in 3ds Max for Verge

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  • 2020-08-24 at 3:54 pm #31939
    loxstokk
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    Hi guys,

    Apologies if this has already been covered in the forum (I cant seem to successfully search this thing) but I’ve got a question for something I’m convinced should be simple.

    I’ve created this communication tower model and animated a simple ‘pulse’ emanating from the top. I’m trying to get it to fade out as it expands. I’ve tried keyframing the transparency, the cut out and I’ve tried animating a controller. Nothing seems to work. If anyone is able to explain the process for doing this I would be really grateful.

    I’ve attached the scene for reference.

    Cheers,
    James

    P.S. Mods – please can you move this to the relevant section as I forgot to post this in the Max forum :bye:

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    2020-08-25 at 9:41 am #31947
    Alexander Kovelenov
    Staff

    Hi,
    Thanks for sharing max file, can you please share textures as well?

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    2020-08-25 at 9:47 am #31948
    loxstokk
    Participant

    Apologies, see attached

    2020-08-25 at 12:02 pm #31950
    Alexander Kovelenov
    Staff

    You can multiply your opacity using keyframed controller, something like that:

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    2020-08-26 at 11:19 am #32004
    loxstokk
    Participant

    Unfortunately that still isn’t working. I have actually tried animating controllers before which worked fine in the viewport. Just didnt reproduce in the sneak peak.

    I’ve tried your suggestion and attached the file.

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    2020-08-27 at 2:07 pm #32085
    Ivan Lyubovnikov
    Staff

    Hi, it appears that animation via the Color RGB controller is not supported. We added this task to our TODO list. Nevertheless, you can use Bezier Point3 instead, which should work as expected:
    bezier_point3.png

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    2020-08-27 at 2:48 pm #32092
    loxstokk
    Participant

    Brilliant – that worked! :good:

    For future reference, the documentation states that both Float and Point 4 controllers are supported. Should this be Point 3 controllers too?

    2020-08-28 at 8:00 am #32114
    Yuri Kovelenov
    Staff

    Hi,

    loxstokk wrote:

    both Float and Point 4 controllers are supported

    yep they should work – please let us know if it’s otherwise!

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    2021-03-19 at 11:53 pm #39601
    Eugene Zos
    Customer

    Hi, any way of easily fading objects in 3dsmax? None of this works and when it does it takes a lot of time and effort to do in complex scenes.

    2021-03-22 at 8:38 am #39633
    Mikhail Luzyanin
    Staff
    Eugene Zos wrote:

    Hi, any way of easily fading objects in 3dsmax?

    Unfortunally, it’s possible only by changing material transparency.

    Co-founder and lead graphics specialist at Soft8Soft.

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