Can You unbuild?

[Fonix_Wircs]

Is there a way to use the unbuild effect in reverse? so instead of an object appearing stage by stage making it dissappear? if there is please show how. %|

[sonix]

I think I remember a method that used a reversed IPO, or something to do with the position of the object’s orentation point, will try to find documentation, back soon.

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@Blender documentation

Faces, or vertices, appear in the order in which they are stored in memory. This order can be altered by selecting the Object and pressing CTRL-F out of EditMode. This causes faces to be re-sorted as a function of their value (Z co-ordinate) in the local reference of the Mesh.

Note on Reordering
If you create a plane and add the Build effect to see how it works you won’t be happy. First, you must subdivide it so that it is made up of many faces, not just one. Then, pressing CTRL-F won’t do much because the Z-axis is orthogonal to the plane. You must rotate it in EditMode to have some numerical difference between the co-ordinates of the faces, in order to be able to reorder them.

Sonix.

[levon]

use a build effect, then in the ipo window, create a time ipo with a negative slope

[Gimble]

Here is an example file:

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/kugyelka/blender/files/BuildSphere2.blend

This one demonstrates various effects depending on how you sort the faces:

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/kugyelka/blender/files/BuildSphere.blend