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Making controls appear and disappear

Making controls appear and disappear - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Making controls appear and disappear

Now that we have our switch in place, we need to do one more little step and that's really more of an interface thing, and that's to hide and reveal our IK and FK controls. So right now when I have my IK FK switch on or off, I don't really know what mode I'm in. I have to look at this, so let's make this a little bit more obvious. So let's hide the IK controls when it's totally in FK mode and visa versa. So we can do that using a couple of different methods. So for the first one, I'm going to use scale. So I'm going to select this object here and let's go ahead into our motion panel and I want to actually add in a different type of scale control. Right now we have the Bezier scale, but actually I want to change it to scale XYZ. Now the reason I'm doing that is because the parameter that we're using for FK-IK switching, is a float controller, and so I need to make sure that scale XYZ is up because those are controlled by floats. Sounds complex, but just do what I say, okay? So, all I…

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