Animated textures

UncleCrunch

Hi,

Could not find on the forum. What would be the file format for animated textures ? (GIF ?, movie file (X264 etc..).

I believe the Power node animation (energy wave) is a decal on the entire room (which boundaries are the location entity). What should we do to get the same stuff (But with our own graphics).

TIA.

SamusDroid

You have to do everything through shaders. Scrolling text and holo widgets in descent are an example. It's very easy

clankill3r

matrix upgrade

UncleCrunch

@SamusDroid‌ Could you be more specific ?

Shaders are the common on 3D rendering software, but not really on the editor.

Or maybe you speak of a "Decal" entity that we move around using the cinematic system ?


Documentation somewhere ?

SamusDroid

No, shaders. Take the models/decals I mentioned, open their material file, see the shader used and parameters, copy and modify.
You can fade in and out, flicker, move textures, but you can't do anything like a gif

BeigeAlert

SamusDroid wrote: »

No, shaders. Take the models/decals I mentioned, open their material file, see the shader used and parameters, copy and modify.
You can fade in and out, flicker, move textures, but you can't do anything like a gif

There is a "time" variable you can take advantage of when making a shader. So if your texture animation is say... 16 frames long, you could arrange them in a 4x4 grid, and have in your shader some code that modifies the texture coordinates so they only take up the .25 square units of space for the corresponding frame they should be on.

UncleCrunch

Well i wouldn't go so far as to call it a shader (mostly due to rendering purposes, and no 0-100% faders etc). But since the game does it's ok.

The thing is that we have to use a specific "shader model" to get things working / the things we want. In this case a "prop" shader. Plus we have to use it the same way apparently.

While it would have been a little simpler to only "add" specific keywords on the materials files. NormalMap, Emissive etc...