Moving Textures?

Can anyone tell me how you would make textures move? Like a waterfall for example. Or, I saw a dance floor with the texture moving on a square. If this info is elsewhere, just send me that way, please...lol.

There is a waterfall kit in the Sl Library that has just about everything you need for a waterfall not sure about dancefloors though.

Thanks Maeve

i think you are looking for an anim SMOOTH script, it will make textures flow across a prim face.

IM me and ill drop you a copy



jester


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This is actually a scripting question, but you use llOffsetTexture or llRotateTexture to animate a texture.

most dancefloors are built from a base piece, and 1 cube for each color-spot, then llSetColor to set that location's color.


Note: most people use cubes such that only 1 face is visible. you could cut the number of prims by 2/3's by flattening the cube, and shrinking the top to be 1/3 the size of the bottom (so the left and right edges also face 'up' XYText uses this to save prims

another really neat function is the llSetTextureAnim, which allows your texture to have multiple "frames" -- think of your texture like a film strip, and the texture animation function moves along those frames. (you can determine how many frames there are in your grid on the texture)

http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llSetTextureAnim

I assume these techniques would not work for texture clothing? But would for, say, a prim skirt?

How likely are they to contribute to killing peoples' framerates?

hiya...

Try looking in inventory... LIBRARY... (at the top) and in the SCRIPTS FOLDER.. there is a script there for animating ....

There's no way of animating a non-prim clothing piece, so you'd have to do it via prim attachments.

I suspect that texture animating wouldn't work on an attachment due to texture 'baking' of avatars, but haven't tested this.

You can animate textures on pretty much any prim, even those attached to your avatar; however, you are correct, you cannot animate textures on actual clothing items. Any scripts running in a sim can affect FPS rates. However, it depends on how many and what types of scripts are running at any given time, in any given area as to how it will affect FPS. In other words, your mileage will vary, so experiment.

Ah well. Thanks for the confirmation Beryl