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Trying to animate an object's material, by simply changing its opacity.

As there is no way to directly change the material properties in the AN node tree, I created a driver to change the value of Transparency's "Alpha".

So, the execution flow goes like:

  1. "Object Attribute Output" creates/change a property named "alpha" within the object;
  2. this property is used by the driver to...
  3. set that object's material transparency.

In theory this should work, but:

  • it works with text objects;
  • it does not work with any other type of object.

Am I doing something wrong? Or is this supposed to be that way?

Example screenshot

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Ricardo Roehe
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No sure why the driver does not update in the cube but does on the text object. This does not seem to be an Animation Nodes bug. It's more likely a dependency graph problem of Blender.

What you can do is to control the transparency of the material directly by using active_material.alpha as path in the Object Attribute Output node.

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