animating materials

animating materials

I don't even know if this is possible, but can you animate the left plane with a smiley face to look like the right plane with a frown face? As in move the materials across the polygons? ( The planes are just simple examples)

The animation you described IS possible, but in a different way.

You have to use multiple Polygon selections with multiple tags of the material used to define the "faces."

The trick is that you keyframe animate the tags ON/OFF setting. So, while you have the Material Tag with the "smiling" polygon selection keyframed ON - you keyframe the Material Tag with the "frowning" polygon selection OFF. And then alternate - turn the smiling Tag OFF and the frowning Tag ON. See attached file.

If you need to know HOW to keyframe these. Go to the animation timeline - selected the Material Tag (frown or smile) - right-click (or control-click) the RECORD button - select "Tag On/Off" - repeat for all occurrences.

Cheers

nathan91 said:

As in move the materials across the polygons? ( The planes are just simple examples)

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This is simply possible by keyframing the "Shade selection"; you can have up to 16 of these selections.

Cheers
Frank

Thanks for the replies, didn't know about the shade selection


I tried experimenting by using multiple materials, and animating the emissive, but i think i hit a limit of 12 materials to an object.

frank beckmann said:

This is simply possible by keyframing the "Shade selection"; you can have up to 16 of these selections.

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Much more efficient than my solution