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  • Hiding an Object in Animation?

    Posted by Chris Wood on March 27, 2011 at 5:51 pm

    Yep, another one from me, sorry! I want to have an animation where a word crashes down and causes another word above it to shatter. I basically want it to be covered by dust, and when the dust settles, you can see the top layer all cracked.

    So I need to swap one object for another without moving them, I was thinking that at keyframe 90 for instance, I could hide Word A (unshattered) and unhide Worb B (shattered)

    How would I go about doing this?

    Thank you.

    Chris Wood replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Brian Jones

    March 28, 2011 at 2:26 am

    one way is to animate Visibility in a Display tag attached to your object

  • Chris Wood

    March 28, 2011 at 9:12 am

    Beautiful, I’ll try this in a minute but I can’t imagine it’s wrong, thank you very much, again! One more question, I don’t want to open a new thread really, how do I pair two objects together so that they move as one? I want to have a large, capital “B” attached to a square block, and have them move together from the front, is this possible? I was thinking pair them both to a null object, but I’m basically talking rubbish as I don’t know how to pair them to a null object – it’s just something I hear being thrown about!

  • Chris Wood

    March 28, 2011 at 10:47 am

    Lol, I worked it out by myself *prides* just created a null object and moved the B motext and the cube object inside it, now they move togeher. Luverrly.

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