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Offline Swedge

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Fade across all models
« on: December 19, 2018, 06:25:58 PM »
Is there a way to apply a fade across all models and effects at the end of a sequence? I'm cleaning up one of my sequences and it has a long fade at the end. The active models have multiple effects during the fade so it's more complicated than simply applying a bulk edit fade on the out transition of each effect.

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Re: Fade across all models
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2018, 10:11:01 PM »
This may work :- place your "Whole house Model" at the bottom of the  model views and the apply the fade, the other models effects will be seen whilst the fade will appear on models without specific  effects 
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Re: Fade across all models
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2018, 05:07:54 AM »
Select all the effects at the end, use Bulk Edit and add a Fade Out transition.

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Re: Fade across all models
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2018, 11:41:41 AM »
Thanks Boof63! I moved my whole house model to the bottom, applied the "on" effect at the desired time range, set the color to black, start and end intensity to 0, and then applied a value curve ramp of 100-0 to the transparency. I faded all the way down before the end of the song so I added the "off" effect to keep everything off.


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Re: Fade across all models
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2018, 04:57:03 PM »
Congrats you pretty much just ruined the typical use of the whole house model but as long as your happy.

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Re: Fade across all models
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2018, 07:57:02 PM »
Congrats you pretty much just ruined the typical use of the whole house model but as long as your happy.

Perhaps I should have been more clear. The song has a long (20 seconds) fade out. Your solution did exactly what I expected it to and didn't want...apply a fade to every effect on every model during the song's fade out. There's a couple of reasons that  solution doesn't work. First, the active models have multiple effects during the song's fade at the end. Applying a bulk edit fades each effect on each model and then the next effect starts and fades and so on. Second, the fade value will be longer than the effects' duration. I already learned (the hard way) that doesn't work but is easily found by running a check sequence.

I moved my whole house model to the bottom but didn't try configuring a whole house model at the top and bottom of the model view.

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Re: Fade across all models
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2018, 09:18:06 AM »
With a Whole House model on the bottom any effect you put there is going to completely override individual model effects.  If you're going to do this I would create a duplicate whole house model to put at the bottom so that you can do normal whole house effects as a base layer.