Animating texture maps in 3ds Max

Deadlift315 · Dec 2012

Hi Everyone,

I normally work in real time rendering with UDK, but am currently working on a pre rendered animation with 3ds max and vray.

Do any 3ds Max experts know if there is an equivalent to the "panner" node from UDK's material editor in Max's slate material editor?

I have thoroughly googled for any kind of solution for panning UV's and panning texture maps but have not been able to find much useful information.

As a work around I just key framed the coordinate offset of the texture maps on my material, but feel that there must be a more elegant way to do this.

Thank you for your help!

spacefrog · Dec 2012

There is the UV XForm modifier which lets you translate and scale etc. existing UV coordinates. Parameters are animatable of course. This is a per object modifier BTW. If you want it for the material animating the UV Offset is okay , why not ?

SanderDL · Dec 2012

You can put an "UVW map" modifier on a plane. Then animate the Gizmo. That should give a similiar effect.

.morph3us · Dec 2012

you can either animate the unwrap in the uv editor

or

where you load the bitmap there is an offsett value in the material editor.
you can animate that aswell.

Mark Dygert · Dec 2012

Yep you can animate the UV's a number of different ways like some people above talked about. You can also create a short loop and have it repeat indefinitely.

To do that, you open the curve editor, select the track(s) that you animated, go to controllers, and pick Out of Range Types and set it to loop.

Animating texture maps in 3ds Max

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