Another noob question...animated?

In Active Worlds they use jpeg filmstrips to create an animated texture. Is it as simple here?

Water texture for example....

Pretty close. In Sl, the "frames" in an animation are arranged in a single texture, either as a strip or as a multiple row array. A script then animates changes between these frames, by using offsets and repeat values. Scripts can also simply animate a single texture to crawl across a surface, wrapping back to the other side, for something simple like moving water.

Look on the following WIKI page for more info:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetTextureAnim

Textures for an animation need to be sized in powers of two (16, 32, 64, 128, 256,512, 1024), with a maximum of 1024 in any direction. So you could do a 4-frame animation of a 512 x 512 texture area in one 1024 x 1024 animation texture, or a 16 frame animation of a 256 x 256 texture area, etc...

OK Ill check out the wiki thank you!

If it involves scripts I will prolly start with something simple, 2 frames, which is what Im dying to upload and use anyway. LOL

Glad to help. Also. look in your inventory, in the "Library" folder, aand you'll find some animation scripts there already. Animsmooth is I believe the name of one of them, and it wraps a single texture across a prim face so it flows across the face like water. It's in the examples for making waterfalls and fountains.

That was a little confusing--what do I do with this command line of info? Create a new script? Will just a copy and paste of the examples work?


EDIT...sorry posted before I read what you said. I will go check that out too!

Well that would be great for water, but how do I make a 2 frame jpeg switch back and forth so fast it looks animated. Wow this stuff is complicated-LOL And I was JUST getting the hang of particles emitters in AW.

in the animation script use PING_PONG instead of LOOP

didnt work-its not doing anything....*sighs*

If this works I have recorded a sample of my logs in AW and how the texture looks there.

better example would be

default
{
state_entry()
{
llSetTextureAnim(ANIM_ON|LOOP | PING_PONG,ALL_SIDES, 0,2,2,0, ;
//the last variable of 8 is how fast you want it to go, this can be changed to 1 as in ever 1 seconds etc.

}
}

Here is a good tutorial on animating textures.
http://www.kan-ed.org/second-life/using-LSL.html#texture

ty Sylvia. For the life of me I know I had Flipper Peregrine's Tutorial bookmarked twice, and it still seems to vanish on it's own over time from my list, so this will help to have a new guide reference.

That worked like a dream!! Thank you SO much!

Now could I essentially use this same script or similar so that I could always use filmstrips? Does PING_PONG only work cause its a 2 frame jpeg?

The PING_PONG option causes the animation to run the sequence of frames forwards, and then backwards, and repeats that. Looping runs it forwards, and repeats. For a two-frame animation sequence, there is no difference. For three or more frames, you almost always want them to loop.