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Creating animated sprites and textures
Difficulty: Intermediate |
| Category: CS:S > Sprites & GUIs | Author(s): |
To create an animated sprite or texture you must first create a tga for each frame of the animation. Name these images image001.tga, image002.tga, image003.tga, etc, etc.
Now create a text file with the following format and name it the same as the images (e.g. for the above example use image.txt):
"startframe" "1"
"endframe" "3"
Run the vtex command just as if you where creating a single texture, but instead of putting the tga on the command line use the .txt file, e.g.
vtex -mkdir -shader sprite materialsrc/mymaterials/image.txt
This will create a vmt and vtf file in materials/mymaterials
For a an animated sprite edit the vmt file to look like the following :
"Sprite"
{
"$spriteorientation" "parallel_upright"
"$spriteorigin" "[ 0.50 0.50 ]"
"$basetexture" "mymaterials/image"
}
NOTE: The frame rate and scale of the sprite are specified in the env_sprite entity
For an animated texture which can be used on walls or skyboxes you need a different vmt as follows
"LightMappedGeneric"
{
"$baseTexture" "mymaterials/image"
"Proxies"
{
"AnimatedTexture"
{
"animatedTextureVar" "$basetexture"
"animatedTextureFrameNumVar" "$frame"
"animatedTextureFrameRate" "2"
}
}
}
If you are creating a texture for a model, then change the shader from LightMappedGeneric to VertexLitGeneric. For animated textures the framerate is specified in the vmt file (In the above example it is 2 frame/sec)
NOTE: Setting framerate of a spraypaint's vmt-file doesn't seem to work!
Tutorial by CannonFodder, brought to CSB by [Xero]. |
| Added: 3 years ago | Tags: creating, animated, sprites, textures |
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