Start and stop animated textures?

[Goldwell]

Is it possible to start and stop and restart an animated texture?

 

Thanks!

Edited March 2, 2016 by Goldwell

[VanishedOne]

If you just want it to stop and display frame 0, that should be easily enough done with shaderParms. If you want it to pause at an arbitrary frame/position and resume movement from there, then I think you'd also need a controlling script to track the state.

Edited March 2, 2016 by VanishedOne

[Goldwell]

If you just want it to stop and display frame 0, that should be easily enough done with shaderParms. If you want it to pause at an arbitrary frame/position and resume movement from there, then I think you'd also need a controlling script to track the state.

 

I just want the texture to play from frame 0 when triggered

[VanishedOne]

As I understand it, time begins on map load, so a table or something used with time isn't otherwise guaranteed to start on any given frame. (Though there does seem to be a spawnclass called idTarget_SetShaderTime...) So I think a script would be needed to work around that (unless the entity links texture frame to sound and frame 0 = silence).

 

I don't know how switching to a videomap would behave. Maybe you could even use a GUI surface...?

Edited March 2, 2016 by VanishedOne

[Goldwell]

I'm not sure what you mean by a GUI surface? The surface of the object has to be the texture which is animated.

 

I'm just looking for a way to play the animation from the start. The texture animates great in game but because it's not loop able I need to tell the game to play it from the start of the animation when a trigger goes off

[VanishedOne]

A GUI surface is a surface that displays a GUI instead of a regular material, like the books and signs you can assign xdata to, or Doom 3's computer screens.