Question How to make atoms appear and disappear?

Toddy

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I am working on a scene were the female character appears at the beginning of the scene then vanishes at the end. I want the female to fade in and not just pop in like when using a trigger to turn on the atom in AtomControl (not to mention the headache of having timeline place on the atom that is triggered off stops/locks the entire scene). I used ZRSX character transparency plugin to fade in and out the character using triggers on timeline. For clothing I reduce the alpha value using a trigger in timeline as well. It can be a very tedious task finding all of the clothing materials (especially for eyes) in the scene to be assigned to a trigger. When it comes to hair I am completely at a lost and unable to effect it at all . Is there a simpler solution to get the effect that I want?
 
As far as I know fading in hair rendering is not possible because the hair material's shader does not support transparency

Maybe you can cheat by placing the person against a black background, with a glass panel on the foreground, and animate the glass panel transparency
 
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Thickness or length : )
You have no choice. You can choose an animated approach like Scary Mary, or you can simply do a on/off (max/min) value.
You won't be able to do transparency.
 
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As far as I know fading in hair rendering is not possible because the hair material's shader does not support transparency

Maybe you can cheat by placing the person against a black background, with a glass panel on the foreground, and animate the glass panel transparency
This a very interesting technique. I will test it out. If not for my present scene I may be able to use it in the future. thanks
 
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Thickness or length : )
You have no choice. You can choose an animated approach like Scary Mary, or you can simply do a on/off (max/min) value.
You won't be able to do transparency.
Length values did cross my mind. I did not know about the max/min value for hair. Maybe a combination of both could do the trick. Thanks for the advice
 
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