Make an object disappear

[FrozenDelight]

I am a new Anime Studio user, so I'm afraid this is a very stupid question. I tried to find the answer in the forums, but had no luck.

I have an animation of circles moving around the screen. One smaller circle goes behind the larger one and is then not needed again. Later on in the animation, the larger circle fades out, it then reveals the old circle. I don't want this to happen, how do I get rid of it? When I delete it, it deletes it out of the entire timeline.

Thank you for your time.

[Genete]

Pull down the timeline vertical slide bar and you will see an icon like an eye in the list of keyframes channels avaliable for the current selected layer, If it does not appear press the "Settings..." button in the timeline window. and check that channel.
Making click in the desired frame of the green line of that channel it will put a keyframe making the current layer not visible since that fame.

Also you can make double click into the layer and uncheck the "visible" checkbox.

Best
Genete

[FrozenDelight]

Thank you, it worked. Is there also a way to do the same thing to a single shape/object in a single layer (which shares space with other shapes)?

[slowtiger]

No, this works only on layers as a whole.

[Touched]

Actually, you should be able to keyframe the fill and line colours of a specific object, changing them to 0% alpha to make them disappear. Just set the previous keyframe to step mode, or create an extra keyframe just before the 0% one, and that object will disappear in 1 frame.

[Rasheed]

That was exactly the solution I had.


animation in single layer, using one large yellow circle and two small green circles; one small circle is behind the yellow circle, the other in front, but has a changing alpha value, so it disappears when it "should be behind" the yellow circle