Visibility problem..

[Ben]

I've rendered a scene with a character with it's visibility at zero and snapping to full visibility in 1 frame. However, its outline is quite clearly visible throughout even though it's set to zero (see attached).

The only thing I can think could be causing it is that I have a volume light effect on the spot-light in the scene.. would that affect it?

[RageCage]

well try taking away the volume light and see if it still happens

[Ben]

Ok, i s'pose i should've thought of that really..

Not with it today, thanks for injecting some common sense into my poor deformed brain!

[kuman]

i'm not sure how you're doing your transparency to opaqueness but you might wanna try something like a visibility controller on your object. you can add one in track view or curve editor/dope sheet as they call it in max 5. that should take care of the problem i think. good luck.

-k

[Ben]

Cool, thanks for that- I've just dropped the Volume light and seems to have worked.. I can't believe I didn't try it before I posted the query in the first place.. it only occured to me as I was writing it!

Silly boy..

I animated the visibility within the Object Properties dialogue. It's set to zero throughout and suudenly pops into existence in one frame. Is that what I'd be altering in track-view anyway?

Thanks again!

:D