jason1025

cool. thanks

Thanks brother!

Yes, I would suggest applying a gradient material to the group. Make the top attribute 100% transparent. Leave the bottom attribute untouched. Apply the material to the group and adjust the gradient material shortcut on the model so the transition is to your taste. Then translate the material shortcut in the model down until the whole group is transparent. Make a new percentage pose. While the pose window is open, there will be a new temporary Action in the Actions container. This temporary Action allows you to animate any group or material properties in the pose. Click on the "Show More Than Drivers" icon next to the temporary Action and drill down until you see the gradient material. When the Pose Slider is at 100%, Translate the material up until the whole group is visible. If the group has any specularity or ambiance, you may need to slide the Pose Slider to 0% and set the Specular Intensity and Ambiance to 0%. Then move the Pose Slider to 100% and set those properties to their original values. This is hard to wrap my head around. can someone make a quick video tutorial?

Thanks for the help folks

My problem with that solution is that I need a group of an object to go from 100% Transparent to 0% but from bottom to top. Kind of like a scanner scanning across a document. It would be perfect if like Rob said a material effector had light list capabilities. Or another solution could be if in group properties there was an option like "Effected by material effector" On/Off

A pose. Never thought of that. Great idea. Thanks guys

I have a layer and its in a chor its supposed to be a bunch of tiny lights off in the distance. Any ideas on how to make the lights which are basically circles of solid colors twinkle?

Can Material Effectors be isolated to effect 1 single group? or specific groups?

very cool

Thanks very helpful

Hi Folks I am not good with expressions attached is a model I made. The numbers need to spin like a counter adding up to 103. That means the right needs to spin the fastest, the middle needs to spin a slower and the first digit needs to spin the slowest. Eventually the number needs to land on 103 for my project. I made some expressions. currently to animate the dial you need to rotate bone 4 in an action. Thats the fist digits bone. Although this can kind of fake what I need however the rotation of the 2nd and 3rd digits rotate from clockwise to counter clock wise at some points. so you loose the illusion if you spin too slowly. In my fantasy I would like to create an expression that allows the 2nd or middle digit to increase by a value of 1 every time the 34r or farthest right digit has increased by a value of 10. The 1st digit should increase by a value of 1 every time the 2nd digit increases by a value of 10. Keep in mind at the end of the animation the final number needs to land on 103. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Gear_dial_12.mdl

the reflection of an object with glow looses its color in my renders

It seems that When glow is set to on and you have reflection on something like the ground, the reflection does not render correctly. Is this a known issue? Should I bother to put in a bug report?

Answered my own question Shft 8 turns on and off flocks and sprites.

I cant see any of my crowed in the flock. I think there is a trick to see them. I think you have to turn on particles but I dont know how?

Thanks folks You were not kidding that is easy.

does anyone know how to bring audio into a chor so you can sync animation to it? I have not done it before. Could you point me towards tutorials?

Ok you can save the written tutorial for your book. but while its fresh in your head how about one of your pro video tutorials. You can reference it for your book.

nice lighting

Take it to the next level and create animated materials for the warp engines.

That time is remarkable. I think that is the best time yet for the am bench test.

Toast, DVD studio pro, idvd, final cut pro, encore, premiere all are capable of 23.98p DVD's and blu-rays.

Did you create the lens flare using AM?

Outstanding work.

Thank you very much