Animated Textures?

[SuPa-]

I'm making an elemental map, and well, that means making elementals

But a good elemental like air, fire, or water needs an animated texture. How do I do this? xD

 

[Mechanical Man]

I have already animated only treads. But I have no idea how to animate other stuff. I made it in max and in mdl.

 

[Guessed]

There are two kinds of animated textures.

One is where you have different frames of the texture as different BLPs, and you switch between them over time (like a GIF does). This is done by animating the TextureID of a layer of a material in the MDL.

The other is where you move the UV mapping around on top of the texture image. This is done with a TextureAnimation chunk.

The water elemental has examples of both.

 

[sk8er754]

I wanted to know how to do this to. Like that cinematic scene where illidan and arthas are fighting they have that woosh like effect on that model of a plane. Like they swing their sword then it shows that model with that animated .blp then it shows the character if you know what i mean.

Think theirs any tutorials around on how to do it? Maybe someone that knows can make one and give him like 10+rep or something nice .

 

[SuPa-]

Guessed, I'm referring to the second you listed. But the first would be nice to know as well (but I think I know how to do it)