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Animate Self Illuminate in 3D Studio Max
Hello, this is my first post on the forum. I've been leisurely doing 3d Graphics since 97/98 somewhere around there. I've always been a computer junkie, but this is my first post ever on a forum. So lets see how it works. I am using 3D Studio Max 11. I want a objects surface to become illuminated though the self… -
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Thanks-- So final answer the self illuminate check box for color in the material editor cannot be animated. You can animate the percentage slider but not the actual check box. -
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Thanks Yes I can animate the % slider. What I want to be able to autokey is the check box. Any help is appreciated. -
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The checkbox is a flag to use a single RGB value for self-illumination on the whole object. Otherwise it will use the top-level diffuse color/map and the slider controls the amount of self-illumination to apply. I can't really conceive of a reason why you'd want to animate that particular checkbox...but you could mimic… -
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You can't animate the check box. You use two keys right next to each other. One at 0% and the next at 100%. -
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You animate the percentage from 0% to 100%, or from black to white. The easy way is to turn on autokey, move the time slider to where you want the change to happen and set the parameter. -
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Thanks for the reply. If I want to animate the hue turning on at say frame 30. how do I do it? In the track view, auto key, or dope sheet? I've played with all of these and I can't get it to set the key at all. -
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Correct. -
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Thanks I think you supplied me with the info I needed. I will try it out and post my outcome.
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