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These seings will create a linear gradient, running verically. The high brightness
value causes it to be enirely white but if we set its value down to
0
, the resuling
gradient will look enirely black. Since we need this change to happen automaically
when rendering, let's animate it.
24. Go to frame
190
of the animaion (
Timeline
, just below the
3D View
), put the
mouse pointer over the brightness control for the
blend_fade
texture, right-click,
and select the
Insert Keyframe
entry from the menu.
25. Now go to frame
200
of the animaion, set the brightness value to
0
and add
a keyframe for it (right-click,
Insert Keyframe
). This way, we get a customized
transiion efect when we compose the inal video.
The final part of the task is the one that is needed to actually perform the control of
the alpha channel of the rendered image to get the custom transiion that we just
created with the Blend texture; for that, we need to create two
Render Layers
and
then use the node compositor.
26. First, go to the
Render
tab of the
Properties Editor
, locate the
Layers
panel, select
the default render layer and rename it as
object
. In the Scene butons grid, select
layers 1 and 2, and in the Layer butons grid, select only layer 1.
27. Next, create a new
Render Layer
and name it
alpha
; the Layer butons grid must
have selected only layer 2. It's a good idea to check that all the objects of the scene
are associated with layer 1, except for the
alpha_control
object, which must be
associated only with layer 2.
Before going to the node compositor, let's take a couple of minutes to set up some
useful defaults on this scene.
28. In the
Render
tab of the
Properties Editor
, locate the
Output
panel and set it as
follows:
F
Path:
/tmp/render/seqs/
(Append
C:
at the beginning and change the
forward slashes into back slashes if working in the Windows operaing system.)
F
File Format: Targa
F
Color Mode: RGBA
Seing these opions now will save us some typing later, since this scene will be
duplicated (thus used as a template).
It's now ime to go to the
Node Editor
and create the necessary node setup. Before
building it, let's look at a screenshot showing it finished: