Production Switchers

I'm attempting to roll credits at the end of a show, but need them to fade-in as they scroll up from the bottom and fade-out before they reach the top of the screen. I'd normally create a feathered mask to do this (in AE), but can't work out how to apply an image mask (basically a blurry box image) to my rolling text.

Any ideas?

Create a material and use a feathered targa or png.

On layer one of your material, go to blending, source factor=zero.

Apply this to a quad and use this object in your Scene group. Make sure it's Z position is greater than your crawl text.

This should get you the look your going for.

#Carbonite

Thanks Gregory,

I should've mentioned that the background wasn't black. (It was a looping texture)

In the end i made 2 quads - one with the looping texture as a background, and the other with a feathered hole in the middle of the looping texture.

Then i set my rolling text to 'render priority normal' so it sandwiched between the layers.

Looks just like a feathered mask.

#Carbonite

Is there no way to "group" a quad with a mask material attached to it with a number of other quads, and have that mask only affect the contents of that grouping?

Currently using the solution Anthony found, it works in most instances.

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Maori, in the current 3.x versions, no. This is going to be a V4 feature.

#Carbonite

V4 that we are waiting for !!!

#Carbonite

Is this option already added in the current version? Or are we still using the 'solution' Anthony provided us?

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