Set IN & OUT Frames with Geometry Nodes!

[@brunoberger9490]

Thanks. Very useful. It would be interesting to know how to animate collection in that way.

[@mind_of_a_darkhorse]

Simple yet elegant! I never thought about controlling animations from a geo-nodes setup! Thanks for sharing!

[@ReubenLara]

Lifesaver! thank you! Is there a way to include all of an object's children as part of this switch? Also, Is there a way to do a true fade with Geometry Nodes? Both of these functions are very easy with C4D's Visibility tag, and I'm really missing this feature in Blender when I'm creating elements for motion graphics applications.

[@BlenderDaily]

you would have to animate the alpha in the material, I‘m not aware of any other feature to fade objects in & out…

[@DavidWinstead]

Awesome, I didn't know what to use the Switch node for, and now I do thanks to you!!

[@seewhatyouthink]

This has just become a new lifesaver for me, I really appreciate you teaching this!

[@BlenderDaily]

happy to hear that!

[@fabriziolorito]

simple applcation of GeoNodes outside of the "traditional" way of cenceiving them. Thanks

[@BennXdesign]

This is very usefull thanks. way to improve : When you set keyframes on the outliner to switch visibility, the object will disapear in the viewport (if the viewport visibility is keyframed as well), then, the annoying thing is that you will loose the selection of the object.... because it disapeared xD. with your system, instead of totally switching OFF the model, you can just swap the material for a transparent BSDF, (or another proxy geometry with a transparent BSDF material) so it wont render, but will still be in the scene, making it selectable if needed! this is indeed very powerful, and I will use it for sure. if you need appearing and disapearing several times, do it with a tick box (boolean) linked to a is equal to node for the switch node instead of comparing IN and OUT frames (because you can only do it once).

[@Starwarsfun1-Leo]

That's great! I will keep that in mind when I do my next animation 💪

[@motionbones]

Genius. So simple & useful. Thank you.

[@Sebastianandthedeepbluemusic]

nice, I was just doing a one frame switch from scale of 1,1,1 to 0,0,0 but the motion blur catches the jump between and blurs it. But I like this better then the other visibility because it doesnt get weird in the keyframe editor like visibility does

[@BlenderDaily]

exactly!

[@ScorgeRudess]

Miss the "welcome back to blender daily" :(

[@GromEditz]

are you able to save geometry nodes as presets for new projects or will you have to re apply step by step for every new project?

[@tcheadriano]

Fantastic!

[@AroundTheHouseShow]

Great tutorial. How would you set this up to use with a collection? Thanks

[@BlenderDaily]

unfortunately I don't think it is currently possible to do that with collections...

[@AroundTheHouseShow]

@@BlenderDaily thanks for the reply. I suppose I could apply the generator the individual objects in the collection as a current workaround.

[@toapyandfriends]

What would be the next step I have a big scene where I'll Have a character visible on frame a 100 then go invisible on 200 then bring them back at frame 300 and then go invisible again at 400 and then still have the option to do that more how would you translate for this issue and also apply this to collections visibility

[@sicfxmusic]

My guess is you can apply another GN modifier to appear/disappear again.

[@BlenderDaily]

@@sicfxmusic exactly!

[@criminalbotanist]

My man this is brilliant. Just updated from Blender 3.0 to 3.4 only to be able to use this setup. Keyframing the visibility the traditional way will also hide all the keyframes from that object, which is frustrating as hell. Did you come up with this idea yourself?