How To Show Transparency Animation Curves In Maya

[rdomingo]

Hey all,

I'm animating the transparency for an object and don't know how to get the animation curves to show in the graph editor. How do I go about doing that ?

Thanks,
Robert

[imhotep]

One way to do it is to use a ramp or something similar for the transparency. Just delete all but one colour on it so it is a flat colour.

Then on the colour node for the ramp just set a key. This will create an expression and you can now animate it in the curve editor.

[tmagill]

Or simpler: when you're animating the Transparency slider of a shader, all you need to do is have the shader selected - now you can see the curves in the Graph Editor. Your Attribute Editor has a handy 'Select' button in the bottom left corner.

[mannjyu]

THANK YOU! I was wondering what people meant by shader.