Animated Skin
by Kent Butler · 12/20/2007 (10:22 am) · 5 comments
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This is very simple and rather obvious. There is equally obvious room for improvement in the script (pause, reverse, etc.)
THIS IS NOT TO PLAY MOVIES - it's to add a cool ambient effect and maybe make a moving ticker or something.
I don't know the overhead implications of this, but it seems to work pretty well on several smallish TV shapes at once at a frame delay of 150. Tweak it and see what happens.
This is very simple and rather obvious. There is equally obvious room for improvement in the script (pause, reverse, etc.)
THIS IS NOT TO PLAY MOVIES - it's to add a cool ambient effect and maybe make a moving ticker or something.
I don't know the overhead implications of this, but it seems to work pretty well on several smallish TV shapes at once at a frame delay of 150. Tweak it and see what happens.
#2
Are you donating the TV screen and may we modify it? I need a screen to hang on the walls and play Theora Video on and it will save me some time. I will be happy to share how we do it when we we get it operating.
12/21/2007 (9:24 am)
Yea, IFL's do the same thing. Wouldn't it be lovely to know everything about the engine. Then we might stop re-writing it. I looked at your resource and the code is cool and will come in handy for objects in which I don't have the source files for and want to do a simple IFL. You have the basic's down for skinning characters, so keep it up.Are you donating the TV screen and may we modify it? I need a screen to hang on the walls and play Theora Video on and it will save me some time. I will be happy to share how we do it when we we get it operating.
#3
"as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."
-Donald Rumsfeld
Sure do whatever you find useful with the art. I was going to play with Theora Video at some point - I was thinking as a texture- so if you figure it out, that would be awesome!
12/22/2007 (12:07 pm)
Now I'm gonna go find out what the heck an IFL is. I wanted to practice packaging up a resource anyhow. If I knew WHAT to ask the darn search engine for, it sure would be more useful."as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."
-Donald Rumsfeld
Sure do whatever you find useful with the art. I was going to play with Theora Video at some point - I was thinking as a texture- so if you figure it out, that would be awesome!
#4
12/26/2007 (2:52 am)
I don't think this is a bad thing. The problem with IFL's is you can't scale them. Using Kent's resource you can map 2d image sequences to a flat plane and cycle though animation - good for fire, good for 2d beasties - nice work!
#5
if(%this.loopAni == true)
to
if(%this.loopAni $= "true")
Then it works like a charm!
12/28/2007 (3:32 pm)
Great resource! I only had to change one thing to get this working and thats when your checking to see if we will loop. I changed:if(%this.loopAni == true)
to
if(%this.loopAni $= "true")
Then it works like a charm!

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