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I have rigged a fly and I have folded wings that don’t need to move separate from the rest of the rig. I also have four keyframes of wings in another position that combine to appear to be rapidly flapping. All of these art layers use multiply and transparency so creating pre-comps ruins the desired translucence. Finally, my question, is there a way to use a two position slider control that, in one position would show the static folded wings and a second position that would show constant animation of the flapping wings?
I understand the slider control concept but don’t know how to make the flying wing position automatically animate when position 2 is chosen. I’ve experimented with countless combinations to no avail. I hit a wall. Advice is appreciated.

Hi,

This is what I would do:

- make the animation of the wings, loop all animated properties with an expression or the Looper in the automations of Duik.

- add an expression control/checkbox in the effects of a controller somewhere, name it something like "Fly little fly!"

- in the opacity if the layers used for the animated wings, add this expression: As the checkbox is a 0/1 value, multiplied by 100 it activates or not the opacity.

- in the opacity of the static wings, this expression:

Thanks Duduf. The fly flies.