how to keyframe scene opacity in workspace?

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Post by jhowell // Jun 23, 2007, 10:24am

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Hello, Iam RENDERING TO FILE in the WORKSPACE an animation. I was wondering if there is a way to KEYFRAME the scene/opacity setting? I would like my scene to fade to lower opacity so the objects would be see through. Kind of like a special effect. Just dont know if I can keyframe any of the scene properties in the workspace realtime mode. Thanks much.

Post by SteveBe // Jun 23, 2007, 11:42am

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It can be done on an per object basis, but not the whole scene. (I could be wrong though).
I tried the Layer Render Attrib. with no effect, seems to me that's more for truePlay scenes.

Let me know if you want instructions for per object.

Post by SteveBe // Jun 23, 2007, 12:30pm

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Yup, I was wrong.;)

Little too busy to do a step x step right now though, sorry.

Briefly, it involves encapulating all objects in scene and applying
Object Render Atribs to encapsulated objects and exporting Surface Opacity.
The down side is shadows will vanish quickly.(no transperant shadows in real-time.

Post by jhowell // Jun 23, 2007, 7:12pm

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Thanks for your comments. Sounds pretty complicated. If you or someone else gets the time to post the step by step that would be great. Remember Iam rendering to file via the workspace. So not using regular rendering.
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