Welcome. Is this training for your job?

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well, you could say that.. my future job that is so now I'm supposed to learn as much as possible in short time. But some of my questions my boss cannot answer so he suggested that I'd be a member here. Is it good? Do you get the help you need? Or perhaps you just want a place to show what you've done? I've seen a lot of good work in here!

I've been having some irritating problems with my software the latest couples of weeks - have been reinstalling everything and still I'm having problem rendering files and some other things that doesn't seem to work the same way in the new version perhaps I could ask you? It seems like you know what you're doing

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Ask away. I use max alot, but the other stuff I havent worked with very much. I know a bit about Director which is kindof similar to flash. And Photoshop of course.

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I haven't been in here for a while, due to tech. problem
it's nice to see that there are so sweet people that want to help

I was going to animate a text that in the beginning is invisible and gets 100 percent visible. But when I go to object properties and turn off the visibility and then turn on auto key and go back to turn on the visibility on the right frame it doesn't work when I play it.. Do you know why?

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Animating the visibility track is a bit weird at first. What you describe should work though. Heres the steps I did just now to make sure.

1. right click the object, go to object properties and turn visibility to zero.

2.click ok.

3. scrub the time slider to another frame.

4. turn on autokey.

5. go back to object properties and set visibility back to 100.

You should see two key frames appear.

You can always check whats going on by opening the curve editor.
Graph editors>trackview-curve editor. then find the visibility track.
the visibility track won't be there until you have created keys for it or added a visiblity track using trackview.

In trackview you can change key frame values and interpolation.

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hi again
I've tried what you said but it still doesn't work and when I open the curve editor I can't see any visibility track, but I did each and every step that you've mention to me above. What could be the problem?

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Here's a video of what Tyson has suggested, is this what you are doing?

http://rapidshare.com/files/124174151/visibility.avi.html

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http://www.3dprevis.com

Flash Action scripting is always a delight..lol.. I used Max to make a scene last year and spent a couple of month programming my game. Don't know much about AS3.0 though. Check this one out and don't get scared, that's my voice on the game.

http://www.rickspitler.com/blackjackproject.html

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Rick

http://www.3dartconcepts.com

I love black jack I played it a little blit to much when visiting Vegas a couple of years ago..
Are you good at 3ds max?

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I have done a reasonable amount of ActionScript, and I'm currently programming a 3d game in C++/OpenGL. Anything I can help with, I would be glad to.

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Matt
http://theprophetmoses.deviantart.com

that sounds good!! currently it's 3ds max that I'm trying to learn. but actionscript is not far away in my education plan
and.. well I've been having some computer/internett problems so that's why I haven't been here for a while.. but I was glad to see that I actually got some answers
what kind of game are you programming?

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Its going to be a strategic/3rd person rpg. Slowly getting the engine going, optimizing it to run at a decent speed is the hardest part, that and collision detection.

We have a killer plot/story for it, I can wait to start that part.

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Matt
http://theprophetmoses.deviantart.com

Sounds pretty cool. Still working on the scroller?

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http://www.3dprevis.com

Nah thats on hold at the moment. I may go back to it after a while, but the 3d engine is keeping me pretty busy.

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Matt
http://theprophetmoses.deviantart.com