Transparency

[Andrew1]

Hi All ,

 

Wonder if anyone can help, here is the situation,

I haven't been animating for a while now , and here comes a project that I do require to move a few objects...,

tha deal is I got a few objects in the scene, and I want one object to be invisible to vray camera until certain frame hits on , can I animate the duration of the object that it stays invisible to render or is there another way around it ???, using 3dsmax 2009 and vray 1.5 I tried to use opacity control in the material editor how ever it does not work - the material on the object is a multisubobject and regardles the control setting of opacity and diffuse the object still renders.

 

anyhelp would be appreciated.

 

thanks

[BrianKitts]

animate the visibility with an on/off controller.... (been discussed before)

 

http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/3130-off-animated.html#post23562

[Andrew1]

Thank you Brian,

the solution works great, good enough though I found a different solution with animating opacity map right after my post.

 

thanks again.

 

Cheers

 

Andrew