animated texture on ships?

[Centerline]

Has anyone been able to put an animated texture/area on a ship similar to the powergen?  I has thinking of experimenting with Blender to create a organic type ship with a glowing orb for the engine and wanted to have a moving texture on the orb so it looked like it was sort of alive.

If you have succeeded, please give me some pointers.

Thanks,

Centerline...

[Steeveeo]

BZ2 is not able to animate any kind of texture (on a ship, particle, or otherwise).

What you are seeing on the Powergen is just a spinning frame with the same texture as a Lung or those giant shields in the final ISDF mission in SP.

I'd reccomend using a rotating draw_geom or draw_sphere in this case.

[General BlackDragon]

Computer classlabel can have animated texuture

thats all though

[Nielk1]

A spinning section on the ship will work. The mission DLL will have to tell the game to loop the sphere rotation.

[Steeveeo]

A spinning section on the ship will work. The mission DLL will have to tell the game to loop the sphere rotation.

ooorrr....you could do the rotating draw_geom and not have to worry about DLL.

[Zero Angel]

Will the draw-geom work on a moving object? I experimented around before with using that, and the draw-geom would just stay in one spot. So when the ship moved, the effect would be left behind.

I did some further experiments with making the effect respawn through an emit, but that didnt work out perfectly well. What I *didnt* try though, was making the emit inherit the velocity of the craft, I think there is a variable for that.

[Steeveeo]

Will the draw-geom work on a moving object? I experimented around before with using that, and the draw-geom would just stay in one spot. So when the ship moved, the effect would be left behind.

I did some further experiments with making the effect respawn through an emit, but that didnt work out perfectly well. What I *didnt* try though, was making the emit inherit the velocity of the craft, I think there is a variable for that.

I tried it on a simple heli that N1 put together, seems to work just fine.

[Nielk1]

Forgot about that.

[bigbadbogie]

How do you get it to spin??

[General BlackDragon]

just use draw_sphere and give it a rotation.

[mrtwosheds]

Computer classlabel can have animated texuture

Computer classlabel scrolls a non animated texture.

[Warfreak]

Nielk.... abotu a dll driven loop, didn't you actually premake a dll tibbit so that looping can be called via a custom .odf entry?

[Avatar]

Fishbone did that for the 'Carryall' in Dune...  and I've added "BZCLoop" and "BZCSetup" as custom odf animation entries in the BZC DLL's. 

Makes Flying Maulers a LOT easier... 

What it sounds like Centerline is after would be more like the Vorlon ship skins in B5...

-Av-

[Nielk1]

http://www.bzcomplex.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=365

Using a simple spinning render would be best though, and not require DLL assistance.