Is there a way to smoothly fade objects when hiding them?
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Hi all,
New to Sketchup and am absolutely loving the program so far.
I have been a Max user for the past 10 years, and I can't remember there being a program for a long time that has made me go "wow" so much as Sketchup has over the past couple of days. I am working on a phasing presentation right now for an architectural project and was wondering if there is a way to smoothly fade in objects instead of having them "pop in" like they do by just hiding and unhiding them in the scene states. Also, I was wondering if there is any way or a possible plugin that allows you to animate the transparency of bitmaps in your scene. I have a large topographical map that I am using as a background image that I would like to start the animation out with, and gradually fade out as my camera moves closer to my model of the future building site. Are either of these things possible to do?Thanks in advace, any help is much appreciated.
J
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Don't know about the fancy stuff inside SU. In order to avoid complications, I use the animation in its vanilla form, then port to a movie editor to do to cut and paste, transition, titles, audio, etc. Just a different mind set.
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it might be possible to do no.1 by playing around with the applying transparent materials to duplicates of your model, but id imagine itd be much easier to do it in post as honolulu suggests.
No.2 may be possible in a similar way, but its not very elegant, so again id go with doing it in post.
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Hi folks.
See attached SU file for ideas. I used the Fog feature to simulate a slow appearing of a cylinder behind a square block.
It is far from perfect and the objects cannot be positionned at will but it may gives you some ideas.
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Maybe you could "fog" them in and out?
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Thanks for the tips, all. I am just going to use Premier to do some post for this project, but this would be a neat feature to have in future versions!
Cheers,
Jason
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