Hi,
we have modelled 3D-Building and would like to animate this building by a clip plane. The result should look like as the Building slowly raises (building up) in time.
I have tried to keyframe the clipping plane in the z-direction, but with no success. I might miss something here or maybe there are other ways to do that.
Help is much appreciated, thanks.
Cheers,
Felix
back in 2010 I raised this issue [and was given a Ticket number of 8000895071 which resulted in a TR301714 code (whatever that means)]- I was wanting to animate a clipping volume passing through a model to show a 'moving cuttaway animation'. I found the clipping elements are not able to be animated.
However you can move whatever the object it is through the clipping volume - I think this is what I ended up doing.
To go a step further I guess you could create a camera object and link it to your model so when you move the model your view point moves with it and so appears static through the animation.
Good luck - let us know how you find a way round this.....
Answer Verified By: Felix Müller
Another option would to create a clipped volume using a solid element, then animate the solid.
Just remember to turn off the level that the solid is drawn on.
The work flow MickyKom suggested was one of the ways I tried to solve the problem. IIRC the solid element used as a clip volume is animated [I animated it via keyframes - don't know if the behaviour will be different from scripted animation] however the clip volume applied to the solid element does not take on the keyframe animation. Therefore the element moves but the clip volume associated with the element does not.
The only way I found was to move my model through the clip volume. So the clip volume is static and everything else moves through it.
I would have hoped that bentley would have implemented the ability to animate clip volumes by now...