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[legendaryfox]

So, I have this animation going (it's a robot dancing). I'm trying to get part of him to change material. Basically, it's changing from Material A to another copy of Material A, only with luminance way up high. How would I go about doing this? Would it be tweened (i'm trying to go for a non-tweened effect..) Would I need to make another version of the material, or just stick with the first one and adjust settings? as a related sidenote, how would i remove tweening in general? I'm currently using the autokey method of animation...


thanks in advance!

Edited by legendaryfox, 12 January 2007 - 08:15 PM.

[Scythar]

If the principle is the same as in Carrara, you do the following: you make a composite material with a "mix" function.
at begin frame you put the mix slider at 0%, and at the endframe you put the slider on 100%.
This would indeed be tweened by the program, but since the tweener is a graph, and you should be able to change the form of that graph this wouldnt be a problem (change it from a curve to a suddon jump from 0 to 1).

But i don't know where all those functions are in Cinema4D, so others will have to kick in here.

[Stu]

create two materials. one without luminance, one with
apply material1 to object
move animation slider to desired frame
insert keyframe
apply material2 to object

i dont use c4d but the principles are the same, that should work without any 'tweening'.

[Scythar]

actually all keyframe based animations are tweened. That's the all principe of keyframes.

[Dirk Black]

wouldnt it be even easier (if the only thing changing is the luminance) to just add a key frame on the luminance channel mid animation?