Aniamted Textures

Ok here it goes,

HI all id like to know about animated textures. Think of the 1.1 ballon flame. You know how all the different flames are stitched together.....well i need to know the easiest program out there thatll do that for me(not copy and paste theres too many images ).

So help me out all you skilled ppl.

I have a total newb question to add to the list: Does SL support animated GIF textures? I assume so based on what I've seen inworld but couldn't find search results for "gif" in the Knowledge Base.

No.

Textures can be animated one of two ways.

Make multiple frames and script the animation as cycling the frames. Thats one way. Much like animated gifs.

Harder, but in my opinion producing better results, is to make one texture with all the frames on it, and change what is getting displayed at any one time.

Thanks, Reitsuki- I now recall seeing old game textures (Quake maybe?) with animation frames on them. Now that I know about how animation is done from a texture angle, I need to find a script to reposition the texture to specific coordinates to simulate animation.

I have already uploaded a the texture i just need a good scripter to get the sizex and sizey cords to fit and ill be happy.

The scripting side is pretty straight forward. If you have a texture that contains the frames of your animation just use llSetTextureAnim. It has parameters that let you describe the layout of frames in your texture so you can do it as a block (example: 4x4 frames) or a strip (1x16).

Just be sure your texture's dimensions conform to powers of 2. It's unrelated to animation but it prevents on the fly resizing in-game and possible loss of quality.

Thanks for the handy tip, Julian!