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OK, this is starting to drive me nuts. I have an assembly I'm animating, and I want a chain (sub-assembly within my assembly) to fade-in over a short period of time (>one second) to be visible, and later to fade-out in the same manner.
Normally this works just fine. In my present assembly, instead of fading-in, the chain "pops" in suddenly--no fade or transparency whatsoever.
I'm saving the animation at 20 frames/second, so the fade-in/out time being too short is not the issue. One frame is invisible, the next is solid--no fade.
Any ideas? Am I missing an options setting somewhere that prohibits the fade from being displayed? The fade isn't working in the non-rendered SolidWorks window, nor in the rendered PhotoWorks output.
Normally this works just fine. In my present assembly, instead of fading-in, the chain "pops" in suddenly--no fade or transparency whatsoever.
I'm saving the animation at 20 frames/second, so the fade-in/out time being too short is not the issue. One frame is invisible, the next is solid--no fade.
Any ideas? Am I missing an options setting somewhere that prohibits the fade from being displayed? The fade isn't working in the non-rendered SolidWorks window, nor in the rendered PhotoWorks output.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.






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Nuts.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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He did a great job!
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 8/12/06)
SW 2006 SP 4.0 / SW 2007 SP 0.0
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In this case, I could perhaps pull that off with a lot of hacks, but I need the shadows from the chains to fall onto the rest of the surroundings (imagine a tail gate). I don't want to get rid of the PhotoWorks materials to make the fade-out/in work, so doing a composite video would be perhaps too difficult in this case.
I was able to get clearance from the client for "pop-in" chains, but it would definitely be better to have a fade.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 8/12/06)
SW 2006 SP 4.0 / SW 2007 SP 0.0