Max slice tool in MAYA

[holger-jung]

Is there a tool in maya like the slice-modifier in max?
please see picture to understand

I want to animate the appearence of an object from bottom to
the top or reverse.

please help!
holger

[gdiman]

In reply to:
Is there a tool in maya like the slice-modifier in max?
please see picture to understand

I want to animate the appearence of an object from bottom to
the top or reverse.

please help!
holger

Try to do it in post! Like: DFusion, AEffects....... And you'll end up having a lot more control over it!
You can also try to animate a non visible plane (or cube)to reveal the object and set it up, so it'll add itself to the alpha of the obj. This way you'll see the whole object while viewing the color channels, but if you throw it together in a post software it'll use the alpha and it'll hide the rest of the object for you!

Makes sense?

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[gmask]

You could try to animate a boolean operation..

g

[stormtroopar]

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[daanbanaan]

could use a ramp as a projection...and animate the projection.
run the ramp reversed into the specular as well....ive done this before...works pretty o.k.

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beer...

[holger-jung]

YES! thats the perfect solution! I just created a ramp (black&white) on the transparency node of the objects material as planar projection and animated it.
PERFECT! :-))

[motalgo]

but no slice tool in maya? ....any way how can I set hotkey for freeze selection tool?
Thanks

zeni

[jeffd]

Slice tool has just been released by A|W on their site! Cut Faces.

--JeffD

[scribla]

I can't believe they just released it. Until now I've been doing an intersect boolean, and duplicating the resulting object, with upstream graph. You can then play with it's history, and make the second half of the object.