how to animate opacity without seeing the other side

[werticus]

I'm trying to animate opacity on some people to fade them in and out of a scene, but they look horrific during the fade because you can see the other side of their heads. Using a double sided mat does not work nor does backface culling.

Any ideas how to animate a fade without the horror?

[Morne]

http://mornestudio.com/render-3d-obj...aytoon-simple/

Skip some steps and scroll down to Step 3 and Step 4. You'll get a hint there

[tricky]

I quite like the horrific look

[werticus]

Ahh interesting! That will almost work too... except my characters are behind glass in some parts of the scene! DOH :-\

[Raven]

I see in trace sets you can't select the object itself to exclude only itself from refraction rays, but this may be possible with maxscript.
I have not checked this out yet but will see if I get a chance later.

Morne, not sure if you have tried something like that before?

[Morne]

Ahh interesting! That will almost work too... except my characters are behind glass in some parts of the scene! DOH :-\

You could try this: (and also read the 1st 4 or 5 posts after that)
https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...e-object/page3

[Morne]

I see in trace sets you can't select the object itself to exclude only itself from refraction rays, but this may be possible with maxscript.
I have not checked this out yet but will see if I get a chance later.

Morne, not sure if you have tried something like that before?

I have not tried anything with maxscript and trace sets yet...

[werticus]

I'm going to try putting your 2d effect people into a scene Morne - client does not want 'shitty looking 3d people' so we are going to try shitty looking 2d people... with anima.

[Morne]

...oops double post

[Morne]

I'm going to try putting your 2d effect people into a scene Morne - client does not want 'shitty looking 3d people' so we are going to try shitty looking 2d people... with anima.

How did these turn out?

[werticus]

I liked em but the client didn't

We are doing a frosted glass look now.