ifl file?

Marisa

Does anybody use ifl files for texture sequences?? I'm trying to use them cause they are very easy to make, but is there a way to keyframe the textures to tell the sequence to keep a texture up for so many frames then go to the next one? There is hardly nothing about them on the internet. I'm sorry if I sound confusing, I'm pulling an all-nighter.

Eric Chadwick

I use em. You can simply put a space after the bitmap filename, then a number for how many frames you want it to stay up.

slide1.tga 1
slide2.tga 7

Or you can duplicate the filename x times instead.

slide1.tga
slide2.tga
slide2.tga
slide2.tga
slide2.tga
slide2.tga
slide2.tga
slide2.tga

Joshua Stubbles

Yeah, I used these for all of the animated textures in STACKED as well. Very easy to use. Although, I wasn't aware of the last digit - to make it stay on screen (I duplicated the line name for each frame). Good tip, Eric - that's not explained in the docs :P

Eric Chadwick

I thought I learned that in the help, but I could be mistaken. There's an option in the load window for the number thing, when you load a sequence, it asks you to specify duration or somesuch (usually 1). I think it tacks on the number if that's >1? Whatever, we use it here too, the runtime reads IFL.

Joshua Stubbles

I guess I was in a hurry and overlooked it then

Marisa

OMG Eric your the most awesome guy ever. You can put the number after the file and it works perfectly. Thank you so freakin much!!! My Demo reel just became a day shorter.