fading light

[Dan Fredley]

Animate light “intensity”, which takes the place of “opacity” for light layers.

[Lisa Simonson]

Thanks Dan!
I’m wondering if I did something different when I tried it?
When I animated the
intensity it made the scene either darker or hotter. I wasn’t able to get it to show the layer beneath in its original state.

I appreciate the help

[Bryan Zilar]

Would animating a layer solid perpendicular to your light source from 0% opacity to 100% solve your “hot” and “cool” problem?

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Bryan Zilar
Motion Graphic Designer
Los Angeles, CA

bryan(at)renderingfactory(dot)com

[Darby Edelen]

When you have no lights in the scene AE internally treats it as an Ambient light at 100% intensity. As soon as you add a light it no longer behaves this way and instead uses the light information on your light layers.

Try creating an Ambient light at 100% intensity, when you want your spotlight to come on animate the intensity of the spotlight from 0% to 100% and the intensity of the Ambient light from 100% to 0%.

Darby Edelen

[Lisa Simonson]

Great, will do! Thanks so much for the help. That makes sense.

Lisa