How do you make an animated texture? Im not making a particle system, Im making like a blue plasma core. Ive already made the animated texture, I just need to know how to put it into the map and ingame.

You apply it in the BSP/model like any other material. Make sure the material or sub-material is named what the shader is named.

The problem is that to have to picture animate by itself it has to be gif or something other than tif. Or I can cut all the pieces out and make it like a sequence, but I have no idea how to put the sequence ingame!

show me what you are trying to do.
save something as a gif and show.

Its just this texture:



Morphing and warping into this one:



And then back again. I couldnt post the actual animation because its a very large file but you get the point. Also sorry about the size of the pictures, they really need to put a spoiler feature in this forum!

i wanna do this for some rocket thrusters on the pillar of autumn but i don't know how bungie did it lol.

Im making mine for a plasma core that im putting in the middle of a map im making. Ill let you guys know more if I get the time to finish it! So does anyone know how to put the texture ingame?

ok.
best answer i can give right now is.
in guerilla, open the scenery/teleporter_shield

study the 4 Stage Maps and 2 Stage Maps dropdown menu's and the bitmap used.
also see how the settings are in the 2d texture animation in both 2 stage and 4 stage sections.

you should maybe copy that shader and add your bitmaps too it and just see what the effects are.

let me know if you need more precise help.

or you could just use a shader model, and in the Texture Scrolling Animation section,
in the u-animation function , set it to either,cosine,noise,wander or jitter. (how it morphs)
in the u-animation perion, set it to maybe 4 ( this is the time taken to morph)
in the u-animation scale i think set to 1, i forget this part ( how it repeats i think)

make the same or different settings for v-animation period.
Edited by Maniac1000 on Sep 5, 2010 at 08:04 PM

to have the texture rotate around its center,

rotation-animation function, set to , slide
rotation-animation perion , set to, whatever you want the speed to be. (maybe 4-100)
rotation-animation phase, set to, 0
rotation-animation scale, set to, 360
rotation-animation center, set to, x=1.5 z=1.5
Edited by Maniac1000 on Sep 5, 2010 at 08:10 PM

Thanks!

welcome man
just mess with the settings and see what effect it has.

Already doing so!

posting so you can bring this topic back if needed.

Yep! Its working too!

thanks. it helped me too.

Well, the texture looks awesome! But I still have a long way to go on my map!