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Animated textures
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 6:53 pm
by liquidlight
Hi,
I'm pretty new to MR's workflow (had it for a long time on my HDD, but now I want to dig a little deeper) and I wonder if it's possible to use animated texture maps with Maxwell. It seems that MR simply ignores my QuickTime movies. Is there a specific workflow or method to use animated texture?
Thanks a lot in advance
Re: Animated textures
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:09 pm
by JDHill
I'm not clear on what you mean. Do you mean that you want to render an animation, where each frame uses a particular frame from your QuickTime movie? If so, it may be possible if you use a Cinema material. If you mean that you want to render one image, in which you see the QuickTime movie playing in the scene, then no, that's not possible.
Re: Animated textures
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:39 pm
by liquidlight
Thanks for your quick answer.
Yes, I want to render out an animation and for each frame the appropriate image from the QT should be used. I'm already using a C4D material, but the images/QT frames are currently ignored by MR. I can see the correct results in the C4D render view, but not in MR. I'm pretty sure that I'm just doing something wrong here. Maybe it's a problem with the codec and I'll try a few alternatives.
Re: Animated textures
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:01 pm
by JDHill
I can't check it out immediately here, but what you'd want to do would be to look at one of your MXS files in Studio and see how the Cinema material is being converted. During export, the plugin will be asking the Cinema shader to render a texture to TGA for use in the resulting Maxwell material; the question will be whether or not the shader is rendering that TGA when its input file is a QT movie.
Re: Animated textures
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:04 pm
by JDHill
Okay, don't waste any of your time -- it will not work currently, but it initially appears I can change things so that it will work in the future.
Re: Animated textures
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:23 am
by liquidlight
Thank you very much for your quick help and the confirmation of my observation. I really appreciate this and look forward to a new plugin version with QT support.
Re: Animated textures
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:26 pm
by JDHill
I have posted links to a 2.5.1.5 release preview (see
here) which includes this support, so you may wish to give it a try.
Re: Animated textures
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:30 pm
by liquidlight
Sorry for the late reply (I haven't logged in here for a while..) and thanks for the new version.
