How to Move UV Coords ?

[Frank1000]

Hi,
on an ICE swarm of textured polys, i need to move the UV points of each poly of the swarm with a certain math. I've seen this http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsi ... ETrees.htm but don't know yet how to achive the goal. How would I need to start on this ?

This is what i have right now


Regards,
Frank

[forton]

I'm not really sure what you're after.
If you use image lookup instead of a normal image node in your shadertree you can offset (add, subtract) your texture coordinates (texture space generator) with an ice attribute (e.g. point position), I used this trick to map an image onto a grid of instances.

Cheers, Wim

[Frank1000]

Hi Wim,
thx for your reply. The goal is to animate the UV textures projection. I've setup the image-lookup like below, how would i now go ahead to make the UV points controllable within ICE ? Would be great if you can help me out with it.

[forton]

I found the scene where I was trying to offset the particles texture with their position, so the mapping gets the proper position related to the particles. you can of course input any ice attribute.
It seems that you have to render to see the image.
Check this scene to understand what i meant...

P.S. it was not texture space generator but projection lookup that I was using.

mapping_particles.zip

[Frank1000]

Hi Forton,
i c , this projects the texture all over all particles. My goal is to animate the cut out of each texture for each particle (rectangle) of the pointcloud. I'm not good at ICE, need a bit help on how to set it up.

Thx

[NNois]

Hi,
I see ou managed to have an ID parameter passed to the rendertree via the "timesource" of the image clip node, so you are half the way with what you're asking.
You need to export from ice a custom attribute representing what you have in mind to transform the uv in the render tree, it could be a
- scalar attribute if you are scaling the uv for example
- a vector attribute if you are offsetting or transforming the UV etc...
... like this screenshoot.

PS: this attribute from ice needs to be perpoint, so your graph need to start from a "get pointID, get point position etc..."

[NNois]

then for the cut out you can
- use a modulate by volume compound for example to drive this custom attribute
- or use a the currentframe node modulated with for example the X position of your particles to automagicaly animate your custom attribute.

[Frank1000]

thx NNois