Animate Exchange of Material

[Frank1000]

Hi,
is there a way to completely exchange the material of an object from frame to frame ... maybe something like creating a list of materials that defines the sequence of exchange ?

Frank

[EricTRocks]

Maybe if you're assigning materials through ICE you can create an array and iterate through it by frame #?

[angus_davidson]

First question that comes to mind is over how many frames does this change occur, and is it just a texture change or something more complex?

[Frank1000]

ya ICE sure is a solution that matches for almost everything, only I don't know how to do it.

Regarding exchanges, I wanted to exchange the whole material probably 10-20 frames long. I know I could make clones and make a hide animation, but thought maybe someone knows what the script command would be or so.

[angus_davidson]

ya ICE sure is a solution that matches for almost everything, only I don't know how to do it.

And this is what ADSK needs to understand is that not all folks want to go the ICE route to get things done.

Regarding exchanges, I wanted to exchange the whole material probably 10-20 frames long. I know I could make clones and make a hide animation, but thought maybe someone knows what the script command would be or so.

If its just a straight texture change you can use a texture sequence. We have done that before for one of our student pieces That way you only need to have one clone hide operation. If your referencing in the models and just changing the textures in the main scene using clones wont slow the scene down significantly.
For simple tasks sometimes its just easier to get it done manually.

[Frank1000]

ya ICE is cool but needs a lot of use and understanding to handle it. for my case at the moment texture sequence may really the best bet. I use hide ani then where i have a really different material.

Frank

[NNois]

if it's on different shaders/materials you could use the Color_MultiSwitch node to switch values per frames