fading in a model

[therealbigjim]

Watching the videos from the expo they talked about fading in/out an effect by using layering. I placed an effect on a model and in the layer  placed an on off 0-100. I tried different options in the drop down box but they never seemed to make the fade in work....

[Gilrock]

Layers have nothing to do with fading.  The On effect by itself does a fade if you configure the start and end intensities.  You can also use the Fade In and Fade Out boxes to enter a time.  Layers are for "blending" effects.  If you set every effect to Normal blending then the effects on multiple layers should blend together and all be visible.  But not every effect has alpha blending support.  It helps if you've ever used a graphics program to blend layers then you understand the concepts.

[flyinverted]

There's a Morph Effect, and there's also a Morph feature.

The morph feature is a checkbox on the Layer/Timing window.

It will morph/fade/transition from Effect 1 to Effect 2.   That could be considered a fade.
If you have Effect 2 as a dark color and layer morph set, the output to the lights will appear to fade.

Most folks just use the fade in/fade out option and it works.

[therealbigjim]

thank you. I see that with the  "on" effect. Maybe intensity can be added to more effects also.

[Gilrock]

The only thing I could see us doing in the future is create what I would call "adjustment" effects.  Kinda like you create adjustment layers in photoshop.  The effects would provide an adjustment to everything below them.  Like in photoshop you can add layers that adjust the brightness or hue and many other things.  So we could have an effect you drop that does something like a Hue shift to everything below it or have it alter the intensity or saturation of everything below it.