Animated crossfade not working... again.

[SonyBoy]

Chaos, you need to fix this issue. I am again wasting time trying to get a simple layered texture to crossfade with two keyframes. This should work. The "official" workaround is to use a color constant. I'm also finding this does not work, whether plugged into the mask or the opacity attribute of the layered texture. Testing this -- which requires batch rendering each time because the crossfade WORKS EXCEPT DURING BATCH RENDER -- is ridiculously time consuming.

This is really a very basic expectation -- that any keyable attributes will be correctly evaluated at render time. This is Maya world. If the renderer can't do it, it shouldn't be keyable and this problem has been around since forever.

[hermit.crab]

I'll ping the product owner about it again. Otherwise, it works fine if you key the colorConstant and use it as a Mask (check the attached scene).

[SonyBoy]

Thanks. I'd like to see this fixed properly so this workaround isn't necessary. Failing that, a second best would be the implementation of an animatable attribute added to the layered texture that replicates the color constant setup, either explicitly or which just has the same effect under the hood.

The confusion largely comes from having both the mask and the opacity attributes on each layer, which while I can see have their needs actually doesn't make sense with this workaround when wanting to crossfade -- the opacity is clearly the more intuitive attribute of the two to want to use, yet the workaround requires plugging to "Mask" which is an RGB channel.