Tuesday, August 26, 2008

VISIBILITY IN 3DS MAX

HI GUYS, I MENTIONED I WOULD GET BACK TO A FEW OF YOU ON THIS.

1. SEARCH "VISIBILITY" IN THE HELP MENU.
2. CHOOSE "ADD VISIBILITY TRACK".
3. YOU REMOVE THE VISIBILITY TRACK IN THE SAME MENU THAT YOU ADD IT (JUST IN CASE YOU WANT TO GET RID OF IT AND START AGAIN).
4. TO GET AN OBJECT TO DISAPPEAR INSTANTLY USE THE BUTTON "SET TANGENTS TO STEP" (13TH BUTTON FROM THE TOP LEFT).
5. TO GET AN OBJECT TO GRADUALLY FADE OUT USE ANY OF THE OTHER TANGENT BUTTONS ("SET TANGENTS TO LINEAR" WILL CREATE A CONSTANT FADE).
6. IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT FADES ONLY WORK BETWEEN THE VALUES OF 1 AND 0.
7. THERE ARE TWO SMALL FIELDS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TRACK VIEW WINDOW THAT SHOW WHAT FRAME AND VALUE THE SELECTED KEY HAS. YOU CAN USE THESE WINDOWS TO ADJUST THE VALUES DIRECTLY (I.E. MAKE SURE YOUR CERTAIN KEYS ARE EXACTLY ZERO, ETC).

CHEERS

2 comments:

Jules said...

Be warned that it drastically increases rendering times, well it did for me, enough to force an alternate approach

Jason Tan said...

mental ray rocks