Animate between two Iray shaders on a Genesis 3 figure in DAZ Studio?

Joepingleton

Is there a way to animate between two shaders (materials?) in DAZ Studio?  If I set a keyframe at the start of the timeline and set another at the end.  It seems to change the shader for all key frames. I also tried adding keyframes on a single shader and changing the opacity in another keyframe, but the opacity change applied to all keyframes.

I tried morphing between characters in the animnation below, but it kept the last character's shaders.

 Any tips or suggestions? 

Richard Haseltine

Iray or 3Delight? Which shaders? In 3Delight you can use time/frame to drive a layer blend of two different networks, but that does require Shader Mixer shaders to start with. I'm not sure if Iray supports a similar feature.

WendyLuvsCatz

the simplest way for DAZ studio is to render it twice with each and then chromakey it in a video editor like Hitfilm

Joepingleton

Richard Haseltine said:

Iray or 3Delight? Which shaders? In 3Delight you can use time/frame to drive a layer blend of two different networks, but that does require Shader Mixer shaders to start with. I'm not sure if Iray supports a similar feature.

Sorry I should have specified that I was trying this with Iray shaders on a Genesis 3 male figure.  Thanks for the tips with 3Delight.

Joepingleton

the3Ddigit said:

the simplest way for DAZ studio is to render it twice with each and then chromakey it in a video editor like Hitfilm

I suspected that might be the easiest way, but was trying to avoid the time of multiple renders.  I tried this technique on the animation below.  It uses two renders combined in After Effects.