Hi

Does that work?

I didn't know you could do that, I always thought that the object was visible either through the whole series of frames or not.

I have always done this by having the object scale set to 0 at the start and then on the frame before I wanted it to appear I would put an break spline and then set the object to the size I wanted it to be on the next frame.

If you want a character to pick something up you can do it the same way i.e. have a sphere on a table, at say 20% size and one parented to the hand set to 0%.

Move the hand until they both line up (You can enlarge the one in the hand to do this) and at that point switch the size of the one on the table to 0% and the one in the hand to 20%.

Now when you move the hand away the object will appear to move away from the table in the hand. But like magic it's really a trick and it's two different objects.

Now I'll have to go and see if I can do this just by turning visibility on and off. 

Mike

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