Visible in Renderer with Filament renders

mmdestiny

Hi folks,

Any idea why the "Visible in Render" parameter is ignored when rendering an animation with Engine set to Viewport and the Viewport on Filament?

Not being able to animate the Visible in Viewport parameter as a workaround seems to make it impossible to render Filament animations with dynamic visibility which...isn't great.

Richard Haseltine

Filament is a Viewport drawstyle rather than a full renderer, so that is why the settings is ignored.

Using the methods shown in these scripts http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/start#elements it may be possible to link the non-animating visible in Viewport property to an animatable property to make the visibility controllable.

barbult

What does "animatable" mean in this context?

mmdestiny

barbult said:

What does "animatable" mean in this context?

It's a boolean.  With the other engines you can keyframe the state.  Ex. A water shape not Visible In Render until frame 30 when the faucet is turned on. 

barbult

Thank you.