Water Texture

[Owehn]

I'm not sure if this belongs here (feel free to move or delete it if inappropriate), but I didn't see any forum devoted to texturing.

I've been going through my old photographs and found one that I took specifically to be the texture of a water surface. The view is from almost directly above, at sunset. A small version is attached below (pm with your email if you want the large one).

[Kato]

Cool. Almost perfect. I'll make it seamless if you like!

-Kato

[Jojon]

Nice.

A related question (which I guess should really be in the Programmers section, but...): Have our dark masters of reverse engineering found any clue about the variables and flags to define, in order to get textures scrolling? :7

[Paradox]

Animated Textures are very high on the TODO list.

We know mostly how they work, we just aren't sure how to get them tied in with Blender and how to generate some of the variables.

[Jojon]

Animated Textures are very high on the TODO list.

We know mostly how they work, we just aren't sure how to get them tied in with Blender and how to generate some of the variables.

Great news!
Are the variables attached to the material or the texture instance? I am guessing the former, so that one can reuse a single copy of the texture in graphics mem, with different variables (obviously they do not belong to the object, or you'd not be considering the issue). Until I know what other options you are pondering, my vote (however nothing it is worth :) is on making it something you set in the scripts - even the initial values.

[Paradox]

Well it's a bit more complicated than that

You have a material, which references one or more layers (Plasma allows you to have multiple layers/textures on an object). Each layer references a texture image, and sets specific flags and properties for that layer instance (the animation flags are some of the layer properties).

[mar]

When I saw the watertexture I must think on a site with good pictures usable for textures. There are also some pictures of waterplanes. This is the http http://www.cgtextures.com/


Mar

[Owehn]

Wow, the license page makes it sound like we can use those textures in Uru without worrying!

[Jojon]

Well it's a bit more complicated than that

You have a material, which references one or more layers (Plasma allows you to have multiple layers/textures on an object). Each layer references a texture image, and sets specific flags and properties for that layer instance (the animation flags are some of the layer properties).

Yes, I don't see a problem there. I have not read up on Python, but wouldn't you basically "just" need something like a "PtMatProps" structure, possibly with "PtLayerProps" as daughters?

There are actually reuseable materials, right? -or is there a complete material definition for every object?

(Gotta take the opportunity to thank you guys for your hard work.

[Nadnerb]

Yes, I don't see a problem there. I have not read up on Python, but wouldn't you basically "just" need something like a "PtMatProps" structure, possibly with "PtLayerProps" as daughters?

No, not really. That's python. Plasma does not run on python, it is controlled by python. The layers and such being talked about are part of the model files. A completely proprietary file format that is not documented. (except for the stuff that's been hacked out of it)