scrolling texture

scrolling texture

Re: scrolling texture Posted by Dark Tree on Mon May 16th 2005 at 9:33am
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Posted 2005-05-16 9:33am
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I am trying to figure out how to animate a texture so that it scrolls. I am making a conveyor belt and I wanted to have a moving texture. I tried making a func_conveyor, but it only moved me...not the texture.

Well I found a water vmt with a "texturescroll" variable in it, but I cannot seem implement it into MY custom texture. Here is what I did:

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "move/belt"
"$surfaceprop" "rubber"

"Proxies"
{

"AnimatedTexture"

{
"animatedtexturevar" "$normalmap"
"animatedtextureframenumvar" "$bumpframe"
"animatedtextureframerate" 30.00
}

"TextureScroll"
{
"texturescrollvar" "$bumptransform"
"texturescrollrate" .05
"texturescrollangle" 45.00
}
}
}

I even tried it withOUT the "AnimatedTexture" section and I have my vtf's and vmt's all in the right folders. The textures shows up in hammer and HL2.....but it still aint moving....are there even moving textures IN Half-Life 2? ARRRGH!
Do I need to take out the proxies? Or.....remove bumtransform (since I don't need it bumpmapped I guess)....can you see anything wrong with this picture? Does this texture need to by tied to an entity or something? Maybe an alpha layer or two layers for each image I want in ONE vtf?
Re: scrolling texture Posted by Leperous on Mon May 16th 2005 at 8:09pm
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Posted 2005-05-16 8:09pm
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Well, does it work if you remove bumptransform? (not that I imagine it will)... Can you use both "AnimatedTexture" and "TextureScroll" at the same time? Try removing the former and try again (perhaps with a higher texturescrollrate)?
Re: scrolling texture Posted by Rof on Mon May 16th 2005 at 9:28pm
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Posted 2005-05-16 9:28pm
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I think you need to remove the AnimatedTexture section, as Lep says,
and also change the first line of the TextureScroll section to

"texturescrollvar" "$basetexturetransform"

Currently you seem to be scolling the bumpmap, which as you don't have one does nothing.
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Re: scrolling texture Posted by Dark Tree on Mon May 16th 2005 at 11:10pm
Dark Tree
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Posted 2005-05-16 11:10pm
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Leperous and Rof...thank you. Perfect. Just took out the AnimatedTexture Section, and made the line read: "texturescrollvar" "$basetexturetransform".

Rof, I didn't even see that you had changed $bumptexturetransform to $basetexturetransform! I did figure it out but I should have read more carefully! Thank you both.