Why is IPO Editor's alpha channel not working

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Hi Blender Fans,

Excuse me for being daft, but the IPO Editor’s ColA channel just isn’t doing anything. I have here a scene with the standard cube, you will see I have highlighted where on the buttons panel I can manually alter the alpha ob the cube. It visibly changes as I play with it in the preview window, but nothing happens when I do this in the IPO editor.

I have read the help and it says that the IPO editor’s ColA is used for altering an object’s alpha level, in a similar way to the way Flash does it with its objects.

This has had me going around since Sunday night, and I still can’t fix it. I thought I knew the interface quite well, but have never tried animating transparency!!

I just want a simple fading effect. I look so stupid to my customer it is unreal.

When you have finished laughing I would really appreciate some of your expert help!!!

Thanks, guys :slight_smile:
Pablo.

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In the IPO editor, set the IPO type from Object to Material and you can keyframe the materials alpha. To keyframe from the buttons panel hover your mouse over the Alpha slider, press I and select Alpha
alpha.blend (52.5 KB)
Screencast demo http://www.screencast.com/users/blenderwho/folders/Jing/media/6675cd59-d6ef-4f29-bcc3-9951fba3a9dd

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Thank you Richard, that worked a treat. You’re a star geez. Cheers :)))