animation items

[Master chief]

ok im trying to do a wepon system with a laser blast but for some reasion when ever i place the shot at the time its ment for it gets placed at the very begining in some weird place. all i want to know is how should i put a lasser shot in with out it being placed at the very start of the movie , or does every model you are going to use have to be in at the start?

[Caroline]

Everything's in the choreography from the beginning, but if you look at each item's properties then there is a property Active. You can turn this OFF at the start of the chor, then when you want it, turn in ON.

[phatso]

...or, if you want a laser to vary in brightness or ramp up/down, you can keyframe changes in the Transparency property. When you want no light, set Transparency to 100%.

 

Not to complicate things, but it seems that, for a laser blast, you'd want to try the Glow property. You'll have to experiment with this; I've found that coordinating it with transparency is tricky.

 

Post a video so we can see how you're coming along.