Need Help with Animated Textures

[Dan22]

If anyone is able to help me make a way to get animated textures/gifs to work it would make the snoop dogg game amazing! I am very bad at coding so I will either need every step explained or something of that nature. Thanks!

[f13rce]

For every frame, save it as a material (just like how water is done).

 

After that make an array with all the materials. From there you only need a few variables to loop through the array and assign it to the model.

 

Example of how I'd do it (C++ though, Lua should be similar):

Material aMaterials[10]; // For example 10 frames
float fCurrentFrame = 0.f; // Start at frame 0
int iMaxFrame = 10; // Amount of frames the array has
float fFrameSpeed = 1.0f; // Set desired speed here
void Start(){
  aMaterials[0] = Material::Load("./Materials/Animation/00.mat");
  aMaterials[1] = Material::Load("./Materials/Animation/01.mat");
  // etc
}
void Update(){
  // Animate
  fCurrentFrame += fFrameSpeed; // Note: Deltatime is not applied here
  // Did we reach our limit?
  if (fCurrentFrame >= iMaxFrame)
  fCurrentFrame = 0; // Reset
  // Assign material
  model->SetMaterial( aMaterials[ Math::Floor( fCurrentFrame ) ] );
}

[shadmar]

Or just cycle textures in one material, something like :

 

in start()

for i=1,numberfortextures,1
do
 tableoftextures[i]=Texture:Load("/path/to/texture"..i..".tex")
done

 

then in update()

i=i+Time:GetSpeed()
if i>numberfortextures then i=1 end
material:SetTexture(tableoftextures[math.floor(i)])

[Russell]

Is it possible adapt this to LUA?? I'm trying to do it with my own pack of textures to make an animation, and i don't know how code or use it to obtain the effect...

[Russell]

I'm learning from here too:

Your Firepit from the workshop is a good point from start...

Thanks Shadmar!!