Render out a tiled animation ?

NAIMA

I know how to create an ocean scene , animate with morph a seascape in max etc , but I am not sure how can I do to render out a vertical slice of that animation and create a tiled animation texture to use elsewhere, do you have any tip or perhaps refer me to a better tool for this kind of work?

Thanks for any answer.

NAIMA

Any Ideas? How you make tiled animated textures so ?

Eric Chadwick

Yes, probably possible.

Tiled left to right? Or also top to bottom? Also, looped? 

Can you show an example or a sketch?

NAIMA

looped and tiled in all directions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY983Li-qgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmW8wOkKwec

Eric Chadwick

This tool is the best I've seen. Tiled and looped, with lots of controls. If you want reflections etc, import into 3ds Max.
https://www.dualheights.se/caustics/

Eric Chadwick

If you want free, but more work (and potentially lower quality) here's a couple old methods
http://ericchadwick.com/examples/tutorials/looping_a_procedural_texture.html 
http://ericchadwick.com/examples/tutorials/tiling_an_animated_texture.html

NAIMA

Thankyou very much I will take a look.

But the first does only caustics?

NAIMA

What  wanted to do is to render out a tile square of animated texture like something like this

https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y7Pe7.gif

Eric Chadwick

The caustics animation can be used as a bump or displacement map for waves.

Your image example... do you want your tiled result to be in perspective like that? Or flat?
Perspective will not tile easily, because of lighting differences from left to right.

NAIMA

Eric Chadwick said:

The caustics animation can be used as a bump or displacement map for waves.

Your image example... do you want your tiled result to be in perspective like that? Or flat?
Perspective will not tile easily, because of lighting differences from left to right.

No I want to record the animation in an image sequence that I can then play as an image animated texture in an engine or played elsewhere.

NAIMA

That is another example of animated texture, how can be done those animations to render out in a set of images to be played? perhaps 24 or 32 in a looped seamless animation? to put in a plane and then import in other games like skyrim or else as it works there with animated textures mostly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QktiHB1HFe8

Eric Chadwick

It's not an image sequence, it's an animated shader. Often this is a texture (noise) scrolling across the model, distorting the UVs of another texture (rocks). Look at my Sketchbook for an explanation of how to do it in Unity.

To do this in Skyrim, you would need to modify the game. 

NAIMA

Eric Chadwick said:

It's not an image sequence, it's an animated shader. Often this is a texture (noise) scrolling across the model, distorting the UVs of another texture (rocks). Look at my Sketchbook for an explanation of how to do it in Unity.

To do this in Skyrim, you would need to modify the game. 

And can I record somehow in a video to use on an aninated texture?

Eric Chadwick

Game shaders are usually much better than animated textures. But if you can't use custom shaders, it is easy to animate water fx directly in 3ds Max, and render a sequence of bitmaps. See the tutorials I posted.

Eric Chadwick

Here's a quick example of using 3ds Max to make a tiled & looped animated texture.

It requires the "Warp Texture" plugin by John Burnett.
https://www.maxplugins.de/max2018.php?search=warp+texture&sort=Author

(change the version to match your 3ds Max)

In the Slate Material Editor, right click on the preview for the Warp Texture node, and choose "Render Map" to render out the sequence.

Stones texture: https://www.textures.com/download/GravelCobble0003/12920

Normal map: https://filterforge.com/filters/10934-normal.html

Replace with your own tiled textures, and have fun!

NAIMA

Thankyou I will play with this ^^ .