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Animated textures/materials

by Ian Omroth Hardingham · in Torque 3D Professional · 11/17/2009 (1:54 pm) · 2 replies

Hey guys.

I'd like to implement animated textures for TSStatics - basically a png sequence. I was wondering if anyone had any advice. For instance, would it be better to

(a) have a different Material for each sequence-frame, and have the TSStatic change its Material every tick

or

(b) have a special kind of Material which loads a different png every tick.

Does anyone have any opinions on that, or any further advice?

Cheers,
Ian
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Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#1
11/17/2009 (3:18 pm)
If i remember correctly Material supports frames of animation that are tiled in a single texture. So you setup NxN frames of animation in a single DDS/PNG and enable the feature in the material editor.

Torque 3D Owner Ben Quirk
#2
11/26/2009 (2:20 am)
Hi,

Not sure what type of effect you are going for. Another option is setting up a IFL for animated textures.

http://docs.garagegames.com/artist/official/3D%20Studio%20Max/Materials.html#IFL