by gmint » Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:48 pm
I just wanted to chime in here and say that I also have this need and I have found a way to kind of fake the fading and still use the slide show from folder function (which I need in my particular instance). What I do is setup two layers which reference a folder of images (can be the same images or different ones) then I stack those two layers in front of one another and use the BPM Router (layer) to control the opacity of each layer so that they fade in out. Of course, you still get the image swap that is inherent in the built in slideshow function, but if you play with the time a bit, you can usually hide that pretty effectively. Obviously, this technique kind of depends on what your application is (in my particular case, it doesn't have to look perfect because there are other things going on) but if you tweaked it enough, you could probably make it more or less seamless.