Good afternoon,
I have a rather simple question that has been dogging me since last night. I have a scene that I would like to animate. To see the scene, go to http://www.digitalharbors.com/_images/blender/docks.jpg.
Essentially, there are three lights in a row. I want to animate the middle one so that it looks like it is shorting out or blinking. I have not problem animating the lamp energy. The shade around the lamp has its emit cranked up, so I need to animate that as well. That I also can do.
Unfortunately, when I created the lamp shades, they somehow got linked. I first created the one on the right. I then left edit mode and duplicated it to make the middle one. I then duplicated the middle one to make the left.
Now, when I animate the emit for the lamp shade, all three shades blink. How can I separate whatever is binding these objects? They were never parented or tracked. They are just duplicates of each other. Thanks for your help.