Open/close doors/drawers

onebad

I make furniture and I would like to create scenes where the doors and drawers open and close, can I do that? How? Thanks

Dave R

Yes. You can do that. There are a couple of ways. One would use Dynamic Components. The other is to make copies of the doors and drawers in both the closed and opened positions. Create a layer for the open door and drawer components and another for the closed doors/drawers. Set layer visibility as appropriate for the scenes showing them closed and for the scenes showing them open.

ntxdave

You have some good examples of this.....perhaps you could post one for him or share an skp that shows him how it is done.

Dave R

@ntxdave said:

You have some good examples of this.....perhaps you could post one for him or share an skp that shows him how it is done.

I'll have to hunt one up when I get home from work.

JQL

Dave's answer is spot on but I think it should be clear that there is no official way of making Dynamic Components "open/close doors/drawers" per scene. If you want to control that per scene, it's better to follow the layer aproach than the DC aproach.

EDIT: Well you could have layers within your DC, but I guess the cool thing about the DC and open close movements is the animate aproach and that is not possible with scenes driving the animation, unfortunatelly.

ntxdave

If you want an animated version, you can also use one of the animation plugins. I would recommend Animator. It would be a simple process.

I think the real key though is how @onebad wants to view the things. Two images, a movie, an animated gif, or on a web page with the ability to click and watch the drawers/doors open.

Dave R

Here's an example of what I was describing with the use of layers. In the first screen shot notice the visibility for the "Open" layer is turned off. And in the second, it's the closed layer that is turned off.
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