i have about 500 objects that have to go into a translucent box and "disappear." obviously i can choose each object once it enters the box and make it "invisable"...but its seems to be a ridiculous way of working. Is there a way where my box can be a "mask" making the entering objects "invisible to the viewer?- i'm using carrara 3.. and whats with animation bugs?-seems key frames dont work anymore? (mac osx)

Message edited on: 04/02/2005 00:33

spinners,

Have you looked at shoestring shaders' proximity shader? I think you could use that as a mixer so that the shader mixes between your normal shader and a transparent as it gets closer to the box. Here's the URL

http://www.des-web.net/shoestring_graphics.html

Not sure I can help with the keyframe problem.

Good luck,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
3D plug-ins for Carrara
http://digitalcarversguild.com

Hi spinners- Proximity is designed to do exactly what you want. . . this is a sample movie from my site- http://www.des-web.net/mirror_room.mov The only tricky part is that I rotated the scene so that the mirror lays completely in a plane. The file is here- http://www.des-web.net/html/samples.html look about halfway down the page. thanks for the plug Eric! :-) Markd