Subject: RE: Undiscovered Country Effect -Reply
From: [email-masked] (Ken VanBrocklin)
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:06:19 -0800

>>> Carl Andrew Johnson <[email-masked]> 03/06/96
10:49am >>>

>When the Klingon Bird of Prey fired its weapons while cloaked
>you could  see just the nose of the ship fade in as it was
>illumated by its weapons  fire. Is there a way to control
>transparency on an object so that I can  pick areas on it that will
>become visible when I want them to?

 A transparency map with a falloff value in the proper direction, applied to 
a model of a little more than  the portion of the Bird of Prey you wish to 
be visable would do the trick.  Using an object dissolve envelope, you could 
then fade in the visable portion of the Bird of prey in time with the 
disrupter blasts.

Ken Van Brocklin