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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Animated textures anyone? ahha

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Rune
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Posted: 16th Jun 2005 09:00
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How to make animated textures i ask myself....how to take a series of bmp or jpg and make them into an animated texture on a Make Object Plain? I dont know! ahahah please help me?
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Posted: 16th Jun 2005 12:31
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why would u want to

basically u would have to load a series of frames, or pictures, and texture them on the object at the framerate(using a timer) u want

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 16th Jun 2005 14:04
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3 methods right off hand.

1) Texture an object and retexture it for each frame from a new image ( a series of images as you stated )

2) For simpler animations you can use scroll object texture if the image doesn't actually change but moves.

3) Use a .avi file and use load animation, play animation to image, and then texture the object with that texture.

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waffle
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Posted: 16th Jun 2005 14:43
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If you check the "iced" demo,
there is code in there demonstrating a method.
In that demo, Lee called the method "decal goblins".
In theory, it was to help low-end systems play the game.
In that context, not too usefull imho, BUT,
if you wanted 1000 goblins walking in formation at the same
time, but with low polygons, than a 3D plain with a good
texture does the job well.
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adr
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the texture object method works in theory, but I have found that calling texture object several times a second hits the frame rate very hard... eg 160 FPS down to 40....

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 16th Jun 2005 23:18 Edited at: 16th Jun 2005 23:19
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Texture object is the fastest of the 3 methods on complex objects. The lower the poly count then scroll object texture is fastest. Play animation to image is pretty fast if you aren't using NGC. For some reason NGC and playing animations bog down, if the .avi has any real size to it. I used all 3 methods in the .csm importer example I posted in the CSHOP forum.

[edit] Where is this "Iced" demo?

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Posted: 16th Jun 2005 23:24
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Quote: "Where is this "Iced" demo?"


I think it comes on the DB Classic CD.

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Posted: 16th Jun 2005 23:27
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Ah that would explain it. I bought the DBC electronic

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