independend UVW map.

[Equinoxx]

you could try and couter-animate the diffuse map in the material . . . so if your object rotates 90° then rotate your diffuse -90°

this is done in the material editor [prolly animate it over w-axis.

or another thing you can do is give the diffuse a mapchannel 2 and the rest a mapchannel 1, then place two uvwmaps on your gear and set one of them to mapchannel 2, then counter-animate with the uvw gizmo.

[magicm]

Instead of counter-animating the uvw by hand, you could also wire the z-rotation of the uvwmap to the z-rotation of the gear and invert the resulting value (-z_rotation)..

[daft]

I had thought of wiring to, but wanted to see if there where some other ways of doing this.
unfortunately, I don´t have the time to try this right away,as I have gone working on something else now.
We will see what happens, I will post a summary if discover something new.

Thankx for the ideas!

[Aaron Moore]

Originally posted by magicm
Instead of counter-animating the uvw by hand, you could also wire the z-rotation of the uvwmap to the z-rotation of the gear and invert the resulting value (-z_rotation)..

Because of the complexity of animating such a thing, i would agree with the method here.

[Chris Thomas]

technique i've just tested works fine, though it does show a max "oddness"

create your object
map with a UV map set to channel1
map exactly the same again but this time with channel 2
make your texture use channel 1 for bump etc and 2 for diffuse
create a dummy and snap it so it matches your rotating object
in curve editor copy its Z axis rotation controller
paste this as an instance to the channel 2 UV's Z rotation controller
then
animate your object say 360 on Z
and your dummy -360 on Z
your diffuse map should remain fixed, whilst the other maps spin

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