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MasterZ
11-21-2006, 09:59 PM
So I have animation animating visibility of many objects within a group (parent).
If I hide the parent it does not override the visibility animation of it's things inside.
I can select the animation curve and say Deactivate Curve but I don't get any script hint on how to programatically do that.
I suppose I could put it in a layer (not a pass?) and hide it that way. Not sure how I'd use the deactivate curve with the groups visibility.

Should I look for an expression and parameter link or what is the solution in XSI for this?

How to temporarily hide objects with animation of these parameters...
visibility.rendvis
visibility.viewvis
misterdi
11-22-2006, 06:20 AM
In XSI each object has visibility properties which is a local properties.
As it is local properties it doesn't inherit value from it's parent.

When you animate the visibility of the parent, this animation will not be propagated to its child. You could pass the visibility value of the parent to its children using expression.

Regards,
comanche
11-22-2006, 07:13 AM
I would add an "Override" to the group and add the render and viewport visibility parameter to that Override. Now animate the two parameters.

If I'm going to animate both the render and view visibility, I simply drag one animation icon onto the other to create an expression that links both values. That way I have to animate only one parameter.
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