Trying to animate a texture on the model, help!

[stan0033]

Hello, I created a cube model with a texture, both additive - to look transparent. What I want to do is aniamate the texture to move upwards like a wave, and then come from down again and rise up. A linear movement. I tried to animate it myself, but failed. The model is meant to be a magical shield. Can someone animate the texture for me so I learn how? Thank you.

Also I have another question - why in the editor when I put a unit on the terrain with this model I can't click it, so must drag the mouse to catch other units? What do you put inside the model in order to be clickable easily?

 

[Jaina Proudless]

i think you may have to create 2 seperate sets of bones and geosets attached to them to do that. then move the one with the white texture on it (make it mostly transparent).

 

[General Frank]

It seems you have missed to calculate the extends. The animated texture is a harder problem. I try to find a solution, but I cannot guarantee anything as I am quite busy with personal stuff.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Go the texture animations in Magos, then simply edit the X/Y/Z coordinates on the keyframes until it looks right.

Here's the problem though: Magos has a bug with texture animations. They will display fine when you edit them and the internal values are there, but the animation won't be properly saved for some reason.

To fix this, save the file as MDL, then manually map the correct texture animation id to the matching sequence with a text editor (windows notepad will do the trick).

 

[stan0033]

I have this idea to alternate 4 textures by showing one and hiding the others, but how do I hide a texture for an interval of time?

 

[Zwiebelchen]

There is the grid functionality for texture animations designed for exactly that purpose. You can analyze the water model from the Ultimate Terraining Map for how its done.