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1. Best practices for animated interface textures on props?

   

   

   Topic by Vertrucio · Jul 2023 · Home› Unreal Engine

   For the prop I'm working on now, I wanted to render in Unreal, and also get some of the graphical elements animating. I wanted to make the two screens on this handheld animate. The middle touchpad section I wanted to act like an e-ink screen to display more data. None of these are interactive, just animated for show.…

2. Re: Best practices for animated interface textures on props?

   

   Reply by poopipe · Jul 2023 · Home› Unreal Engine

   if it needs to be actually interactive you want to use the widget stuff cos you definitely don't want to be trying to handle UI with standard shader/blueprint logic if it just needs to change pictures/animate in response to a button press/state change of some sort then it's viable to handle it with shader parameters .…

3. Re: Best practices for animated interface textures on props?

   

   Reply by iam717 · Jul 2023 · Home› Unreal Engine

   i've seen some artstations with cool animated projects i will update this post with them and or if i find them, i really enjoyed them when i did see them, perhaps the user that created them could chime in, but generally i think its a flipbook approach, give that a review until i edit this post with the ones i saw. Scroll…

4. Re: Best practices for animated interface textures on props?

   

   Reply by Vertrucio · Jul 2023 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Thanks, I think I'll whip up a simpler flip book for some early marmoset renders and as a kind of previs, then later when I have more time create an unreal scene with all the UMG widgets.