Animated texture/Expand or contract

[Usedwell]

I am posting this because I am curious if someone has accomplished this. I've searched through threads and tutorials and came acrossed nothing of it. Is there a way to make an expanding or contracting texture on a transparent model? As in, a circular shield model, with a random shockwave texture starting in the middle expanding outwards (or starting on the outer edges contracting to the center), while looped? And by this I mean the texture on the geoset itself, not the model.

 

[skrab]

Yes you can do that.

 

[Usedwell]

Do you have an example by any chance? Can't seem to figure it out on my own

 

[skrab]

Here you have a animated texture that moves, rotates and scales.

I use 3Ds max 5 and I don't support other tools.

 

[Usedwell]

Yes, that I have been able to do, what I tried explaining is what I cannot do. The texture animation im talking about only works on a bone, but then the model itself expands. Maybe its just because im using magos for it.

 

[skrab]

Show me your model.

 

[Usedwell]

Seems like the scaling texture anim does not work in magos, unless i am just making some noob mistake.

 

[Usedwell]

Actually the geoset anim on that shouldnt be there. its the texture anim only.

 

[skrab]

That model crashed my WE. Also magos won't display scaling and rotating texture animations. You must test them in WE or ingame. Delete the geoset animation if it bothers you.

 

[Usedwell]

Not even in game does the scaling texture animation work.

 

[ike_ike]

Worst case scenario use a particle emitter

 

[Usedwell]

Na, an emitter wont cut it

 

[D4RK_G4ND4LF]

magos has a few bugs
it displays texture TRANSLATION but cant save it as mdx well as many others things
saving as mdl and then converting it to mdx with some other tool works though (but it messes up the width and height of particle emitters)

it probably will be easier to create a plane and scale it instead of scaling the texture

 

[Usedwell]

I'll give that a shot, doing it on .mdl. I did not know about that bug on magos.

 

[Usedwell]

Woo! I've figured out a way of getting texture anim to work *finally* thanks to you D4RK! It's not exactly how I wanted but I know how to tweak it now. +rep
The model attached is right hand specific.