: Is it possible to animate a modifier in 3ds Max? Is it possible to 'animate in' a modifier? Elaboration: I want a cube to behave as a regular cube for, say, 10 frames, and only after 10

@Goswami567

Set to Auto-keyframe, head to frame 0, and reduce all the properties of the modifier to 0 (or whatever creates NO impact on the underlying object). Now you have your begin state.

From there, add whatever you need at later frames to animate in the total impact of the modifier.

Some Modifiers, by virtue of the way they work, may not be able to have a zero state (zero impact) upon the rest of their stack. But most should.

You can then head to the animation timeline to set the keyframes to eases of your choice to gracefully build the impact of the effects of the modifiers on your stack.

In this manner you can do some amazing things with modifies. Particularly if you use wave modifiers to modify their values.

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