easy material question?

[brammelo]

Hi Strat,

I don't think you will be able to get the water shader to loop and tile in an acceptable manner. Some of the SLA noises might do the trick, but I honestly don't remember which ones. In any case, I think you would be far better of with one of Darf's plugins - I think it's Praline, but check Cidertank for this.

About the animated preview: right click on the icon (previz) and selcect "animate".

Good luck,
BaRa

[STRAT]

thanks for the preview tip :)

yip, i come to that conclusion too. also, if you think about it, if you could seamlessly loop a proceedural, then it wouldnt be a proceedural

[Chrissyboy]

Hi Strat - I don't think there's anything about procedurals that stops them looping - Tiles are procedural and they loop real nice ;-)

The plug that brammelo mentioned is Penny, very handy for making mini-loops of exactly this sort of thing; fires, water, flapping flags. Some of this is built into the new NICKL, which contains a looping noise, you might want to try the demo. It's a bit fiddly at first, you have to get the spatial and temporal bounds just right or it won't work.

PENNY isn't re-released yet, which is a shame.

Seeyou - C

Originally posted by STRAT
thanks for the preview tip :)

yip, i come to that conclusion too. also, if you think about it, if you could seamlessly loop a proceedural, then it wouldnt be a proceedural

[artemesia66]

3) also in 7.3, the actual material shader animated in real time in the material editor. it doesn't in rel 8.5, how do i switch this feature back on?
right-click on the preview in either the AM or the Mat Editor to get a menu to change the shape and toggle animation of the preview. Also check out the new large size preview (Open Window... on that menu).

[sad]

take a look at VARIOUS
http://www.motion-gimmick.net/

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