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Trouble animating layers in ArcScene...time sensitive, PLEASE HELP!

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03-26-2014 06:12 AM
StephanieFulton
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Hello,

I'm trying to animate a couple of Arc Hydro Ground Water (AHGW) projects I made in ArcScene (I have already posted this in the Aquaveo AHGW forums but haven't gotten a response yet and I'm getting desperate for time!!).  I've read and watched a number of tutorials on ArcGIS animation, but still can't find the answer I'm looking for.  I want to make an animation where I show different layer attribute IDs fading in and out opposed to showing the entire layer all at once.

For example, I want to animate the Geosection to Points tutorial layers such as the Borepoints, GeoSection, Horizon rasters, and GeoVolumes where I show the borepoints for different horizons separately fading in and out, then the GeoSection, followed by the different horizon rasters, and lastly the Geovolume horizonIDs (see some of the representative screen captures I'd like to animate turning on and off). 

I think what I want to do is make a Group Animation, however, when I do that, it shows every layer in the ArcScene project in its entirety, for example ALL the borepoints for different horizons, the entire GeoVolume (i.e., all three horizons at once), etc.. When I try to make individual keyframes of different layer attribute IDs (e.g., borepoints for horizons -5 through 7 independently), all I get is one track with 4 keyframes that are all the same, which is simply the last keyframe I made of borepoints for horizon ID=7 (I tried to upload a video where I captured a key frame of each of the borepoint IDs -5, 5, 6,and 7 selected and displayed separately, but apparently we can't upload videos?).

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Stephanie
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Original User: jbswain

It should be possible through the group animation to fade in and fade out between layers.  The key will be to sync that in to different movements.  Here is some help that discusses it further.  You are on the right track the group animation is the right way to do it. Here is also a video that should help.
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StephanieFulton
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Thanks Jeff.  I've already looked at both the tutorial you posted and the video.  I think I've figured it out myself, or at least have found a work-around.

Stephanie
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