Toggle appearance and visibility in animations

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Toggle appearance and visibility in animations.

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After completing this video, you'll be able to

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toggle component visibility in an animation

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and toggle component appearance in an animation

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in fusion 3 60.

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Let's get started with the supply data set animation appearance dot F 3D.

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In this video,

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we're going to be exploring the visibility and appearance

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options that we have available to us in an animation

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to get started.

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Let's continue to expand the browser so we can see each of the components

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keeping in mind that the position of the timeline or the play head

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is going to be important in terms of where we

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are going to be changing the visibility of objects.

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So for example, if we want the hardware to be hidden,

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we would want to go back to the scratch zone,

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go to our hardware and either toggle off its visibility

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or go to our transform options and use show hide.

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Then when we bring the play head forward,

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notice that the hardware is not currently visible

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but around two seconds, I can toggle on the visibility

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and then its visibility will be on for the rest of the animation.

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So as we play through this,

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we'll be able to see that the hardware is currently hidden and

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then it'll begin appearing at that specific point in time.

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Now, there are various options that we can use.

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When we talk about the visibility of an object,

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we can stretch out the width of this light bulb icon,

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which will determine how long it takes the opacity to change of the objects

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you can see here, there's a slow transition,

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bring the hardware in until it's fully visible.

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This can be a great way for you to change up the animation

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and determine which components you want to see at certain points in time.

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Keep in mind that when we talk about actually using this animation downstream,

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this won't matter in a detailed drawing.

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It only will take the last position in the timeline.

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Some of the other options that we do

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have for components is to change their appearance.

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When we take a look at the housing and specifically the front cover.

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When the front cover is selected, we can go to our appearance options

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and we can change the appearance in this design.

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I'm gonna select a metal option.

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And when we expand the metal under aluminum,

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I'm gonna be using a blue aluminum appearance,

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we're gonna say, OK.

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And notice that this object has now changed its appearance.

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The appearance itself is not going to be dependent upon the timeline position.

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However, the visibility will,

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it is important to note that we can toggle the appearance override on and off.

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So once we have changed the appearance

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by clicking on that icon,

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we can toggle it on and off and you can see that it goes

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back to that metal gray or we can show it as its aluminum blue material

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at this point.

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Let's go ahead and make sure that we do save our animation before moving on.