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Revealing ink on a page in an animated way

Discussion in 'Animation' started by Drowning-Monkeys, Apr 3, 2018.

  1. Drowning-Monkeys

    Drowning-Monkeys

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    So I'm curious about how you would accomplish this effect, as seen in the Sea of Thieves intro (in game). I've found tutorials on how to do it in After Effects, but no idea how to bring that into Unity, as it is not a skeleton animation.

     
  2. kdgalla

    kdgalla

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    The simplest way would be to use a material with an alpha-cut-off shader to display the ink drawing. Then you animate the alpha threshold in the material properties to go from high to low. Create an alpha channel for your image with different levels of alpha so that more and more of the drawing is revealed as the threshold changes.