Time Lapses Poses ?

[Simon Edmondson]

I've often made use of the ability to hide CP's in the object so they don't show in the cho when animating, hiding the rest of the body when checking two figures hand positions in a dance sequence for example. I wondered if there was a way to set that up using pose sliders so as to get a timelapse effect ?

 

What I want to do is to hide parts of a house and have them revealed over time so as to get a time lapse effect. It would be possible to do it with iterated models, substituted as the the chor progressed (?) but I wondered if it was possible to hide the cps viapose sliders or another mechanism ?

simon

[robcat2075]

You can keyframe surface settings like transparency in a pose.

 

Set your keyfames to "Hold" interpolation so the transparency happens suddenly and not gradually between keyframes.

[Simon Edmondson]

Elegant solution.

Thank you Robert

regards

simon

[robcat2075]

Make a group for each section of the model you want to show/hide.

 

Make an new On/OFF pose.

Go down to the phantom Action that appears in the Actions folder and turn on "Show More Than Drivers" to expose the groups.

Do your key framing in that phantom pose for one group

Close the Pose and repeat for each Group.

[robcat2075]

If you get stuck ask some more.

[Simon Edmondson]

Robert

Thank you, I'm hopingtotestthe idea in the next few days

regards

simon

[robcat2075]

Now that I think about it, the Poses aren't a necessity. You could keyframe the transparency on the groups directly in the Chor.

[robcat2075]

But as I think about it some more, making poses at the model-level will simplify your work in the Chor if you are using many instances of the same model in the chor.

[Simon Edmondson]

Robert

Thank you for your help.

The test is taking quite a whie to go through but should have the first version done later today.

I will try the transparency method next as it was a bit complicated to set up on the model as it is at the moment.

A variation I was thinking of would be, to divide the model into groups, ( vertically or horizontally ) independent of other settings, then hide or make them transparent as required? I'll see if I can post an example later.

regards

simon

[Simon Edmondson]

A bit rushed but tthis was ( very) roughly the idea.

A better version going through over night.

simon

House Test 0.mov