animated texture...

Hello!

I'm trying to make an animated texture...but i can't find out how it works with source and the VMT/VTF format..

If i remember well, with HL1 it was many textures with +1 +2 +3 +4 at the end of the name..

But for HL2 i dont know how it works

My animated texture has 7 images (All exported in tga format), so do i have to compile the 7 images into 1 texture or? If yes, how can i achieve this?

And what i have to write into the VMT?

Sorry for the questions, but i didnt find anything that help to make this kind of textures...

Thanks in advance if you can help me :smile: (and sorry for my english..)

PS: it's for Counter-Strike source

Try one of the numerous other threads on this topic.

Hint: Use the search button

Ahh? Where??

I did search this forum but found nothing about animated texture...so

EDIT: oops, finally i've found the answer in the SDK doc...my mistake :biggrin:

Well finally i'm still having trouble to figure out how it works...

I have 9 textures (compiled in VTF) named: b_Rain001 to b_Rain009

And i have 9 VMT file for each textures.

B_rain001.VMT looks like:

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$translucent" 1
"$baseTexture" "bunk/B_rain001"
"$startframe" "1"
"$endframe" "9"
"$nodecal" 1
}

While B_rain002.vmt looks like:

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$translucent" 1
"$baseTexture" "bunk/B_rain002"
"$startframe" "1"
"$endframe" "9"
"$nodecal" 1
}

I see the texture ingame but it's not animated...

I've also tried with:

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$translucent" 1
"$baseTexture" "bunk/B_rain001"
"$startframe" "B_rain001"
"$endframe" "B_rain009"
"$nodecal" 1
}

But it's not working either...

What am i doing wrong? Can someone help?

EDIT: Problem solved, answer can be found here: http://www.hl2world.com/bbs/need-help-with-animated-textures-vt38127.html

<div class="abouttext">Message submitted 5 minutes after original post:</b></div>
Search on inet for VTFEdit its a handy tool that makes things easyer cause you import the frames in 1 vtf

the script shoulf be like:

"LightMappedGeneric"

{

"$baseTexture" "youracount/yourvtf"

"Proxies"

{

"AnimatedTexture"

{

"animatedTextureVar" "$basetexture"

"animatedTextureFrameNumVar" "$frame"

"animatedTextureFrameRate" "2"

}

you can change the frame rate with the last command "animatedTextureFrameRate"

good luck