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Subject: Re: Not Perfectly Clear!
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> I am trying to make a line on a bar graph slowly appear from left to right. I
> figured a transparency image map sequence would do the trick, but it seems
> like I can never make the object *totally* transparent. There is always a
> faint outline of it. I've even tried it with no image map and just 100%
> transparency. However, if I set transparency to 200%, the object is totally
> gone. My questions are: 1) how do I animate my bar graph?, and 2) why isn't
> 100% transparency 100% invisible?
>
> --Doug
>
Consider morphing the bar to its final length, then as it grows, "disolve"
it into the graph, instead of using transparency. I haven't tried this but
it seem like it should work.


Doug Rudd
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