[Q2]

Hi guys,

How would you go about creating an animation in Modo 801 with Maxwell emitters, where the light intensity would need to fade in.

In Modo I can just make the emitter plane on or off, so what can I do to render the final animation with maxwell, so the lights slowly fade in ?

An ideas?

THANKS

Cheers Q!

[Marton Day8]

Hello,

I don't understand the problem. Do you have to switch the visibility? Can't you drive a channel?

Márton

[Q2]

Basically I need the light just to slowly fade in and change intensity from zero to say 5 watts. I tried to do it by driving a channel but only got it to either be on or off. no fading when i had a maxwell emitter material applied to my object!

[Marton Day8]

What happens if you change the timeline to a in-between frame. Do you get the right value when you export it to Maxwell?

Márton

[Q2]

nope, just "on" or " off"

can't get it to fade in the light.

any ideas?

Thanks for the help Márton

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[Tea_Bag]

What about using the dissolve channel in Modo or the opacity channel for the material?

edit: dissolve the emitter geometry - key the dissolve channel @ 100% on your first frame and then the last frame @ 0% that will slowly fade in your emitter geometry

[Q2]

Hi TeaBag

I'll try that, maybe that'll do the trick.....
Thanks for the tip!

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