topic Re: Visibility Tracks which works with the Arnold Renderer? in 3ds Max Forum

Visibility Tracks which works with the Arnold Renderer?

Floydchen — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:54:15 GMT

Hello all together,

is there meanwhile an option to make transparencies with the Visibility Tracks, which works also with the Arnold Renderer?

I saw there is a possibility with the Standard surface and to animate the Opacity Cutout, but even that does't work.

Can it be, that I have to work with the older Version of MAX to get all this stuff via Mental Ray?

Would be glad, if someone has a solution.

Thanks in advance

Re: Visibility Tracks which works with the Arnold Renderer?

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:40:08 GMT

Hi, @Floydchen why is it not working with the animated Cutout map?

Use a OSL Color node animated from black to white in the Cutout Slot of Physical Material or Arnold Standard surface, it should work just fine.If you already have a Cutout Map in the slot, you can setup an OSL multiply node between them and pipe this into Cutout-Slot:

MentalRay is dead. Get over it. 😉

Re: Visibility Tracks which works with the Arnold Renderer?

Floydchen — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:49:33 GMT

Hi lieber Aon,

gut, das du antwortest :-).

Ich bin am verzweifeln, da ich meine Szene schon komplett in MAX 2020 unter dem Arnold-Renderer angelegt habe.

Nun habe ich mich mit dem Fading-Ding in 3ds AMx noch nicht auseinandergesetzt, ich kenne es aus vielen anderen Timeline-Programmen, wie After Effects, Flash, Premiere und Final Cut. Also, ich dachte es dürfte für 3ds MAx keine große Sache sein.

OK, heißt deine Lösung, das mein 3d-Objekt sein Original-Material behalten kann und ich nur über diesen Cutout Map-Slot eine Art Animation von Weiß (opak) zu schwarz (transparent) einfügen muss?

Wenn es so wäre, dann würde ich jubeln.

Ich habe schon versucht, irgendetwas in den Slot zu bekommen, ich probiere es jetzt noch einmal.

Aber es hat nicht geklappt, ich versuche es nun noch einmal mit deinem Screenshot.

Danke vorab :-).

Re: Visibility Tracks which works with the Arnold Renderer?

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:34:25 GMT

Hallo,

hier noch ein Beispiel angehängt.

Re: Visibility Tracks which works with the Arnold Renderer?

leeminardi — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:43:02 GMT

Nice!

Is there a way to see the visibility dynamically change on affected objects as you scrub the time slider?

Re: Visibility Tracks which works with the Arnold Renderer?

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:03:54 GMT

@leeminardi wrote:
Nice!
Is there a way to see the visibility dynamically change on affected objects as you scrub the time slider?

Yes, that works but only with Physical-Material. Have to to turn on Shaded Materials with Maps or Realistic Materials with Maps of course.

For Arnold Standard Surface you will have to use Viewport->ActiveShade.

Re: Visibility Tracks which works with the Arnold Renderer?

Floydchen — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 06:02:57 GMT

Guten Morgen Aon,

yuhu, you made my day.

Vielen, vielen Dank, das ist ja super :-).