animated textures/movies

[Emedia-Canada]

Quick question. I have to design a kiosk structure that has plasma screens which display moving images. What is the quickest way of incorporating .mov or .avi files into the material or scene?

 

Thanks,

DP

[quizzy]

just put avi's or quicktime's on the diffuse map...like this:

 

[nisus]

Hi Emedia,

 

If you have memory problems I recommend you not to use *.mov or *.avi, but to use an image file list (*.ifl). This basicly a textfile that tells max which image from a sequence to load, so that per frame max only has to load one image instead of the whole animation into memory. As I said, this method can results in serious memory savings when your animationfile is rather large. Check the manual for more info on how to make *.ifl's: it's a real simple procedure and well worth it.

 

rgds

 

nisus

[Emedia-Canada]

Thanks guys, I appreciate your rapid response!

 

Doug