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Subject: Re: LW4 Newbe question - Flashing lights....
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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Iain Young wrote:

> problem is, I wan't some slowly flashing  warning lights along the sides
> of the ship, and try as I might, I can't seem to find any way of doing
> this (I've scoured the manual, but I can't seem to find anything to cover
> this). Is there a way to make objects appear at a certain frame, and
> dissapear at another, or even change the texture of an object at a
> certain frame, (this way I could turn the texture ambience/luminosity on
> and off) ?
>
Easy peasy. In the lights control panel you will find a button with an E
on it. Click this and then you will be confronted with an envelope graph
which you can edit to raise and lower the light intensity from (eg) 0 to
100 over a specific amount of frames. Do this for one loop, then set
'end-behaviour' to REPEAT.

This will change the intensity of the light, but if you actually want to
SEE the light source you will have to set lens-flare to on and define an
envelope for flare intensity in the same way as light intensity. If the
ship is moving away, remember to specify 'fade with distance' too.

If you want objects to disappear in the sequence, you will have to set an
envelope for 'object dissolve' in the objects panel. As for changin
textures, you could try using 'morph surfaces', which is also in the
objects panel, and is described in the manual.

Hope this helps...

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