MX Simulator

I have searched and cannot find decent documentation on it... ? i noticed some have multiple textures, but im not sure how to name them, or time them or how it works.

Can anyone explain to me the -repeat on some texturing and how it works? like for moving water?

Basically, when -repeat is added to the textures name, it tells MXS to tile the texture past your regular [0,0] --> [1,1] uv space.

If you unwrap a model, say a square plane used for water, you can scale that single planes uv extremely large, so maybe it goes from [0,0] to [100,100]. Your texture will only show up from [0,0] to [1,1] regularly. When -repeat is added, the texture will tile infinitely, all the way to however far your uv goes past [1,1].

You can also use this tile property for vertical and horizontal tiling alone if you set up your texture and uv map correctly.

Regular texture names:
texture.png
texture_norm.png
texture_spec.png

Repeat texture names:
texture-repeat.png
texture_norm-repeat.png
texture_spec-repeat.png

So this doesnt sound like the method people use to create moving water like on the new track Avalon?

This just tiles a texture static?

I notice in this shadertest.zip i found in my searching it has an example of:

waterplane.jm has the texture ripple-repeat.png which now makes sense.. But

It also has

ripplea075.png
ripplea050.png
ripplea025.png
ripplea000.png

and

ripplebc075.png
ripplebc050.png
ripplebc025.png
ripplebc000.png

and

rippleab075.png
rippleab050.png
rippleab025.png
rippleab000.png

And also ripple_norm-repeat.seq <--- new file name to me.

inside this file ^^^
Can anyone explain whats happening here, i canf kind of see, but it doesnt completely make sense

While i'm at it, can we .seq the model as well or just the texture?

.seq is a sequence file. It is sorta like a gif of all the files named within it. The numbers at the top of the .seq change how it acts.

Yes, you use a sequence file the same as a .png

Those numbers are for # of images, # of frames, time per frame (128 = 1second), and loop (0 is no, 1 is yes)

Thanks!!

What is the
0-11 underneath that? just stating the number of images?

The sequence order of the images you've loaded below that.

can we .seq the model as well or just the texture?

Just the texture. It'd be pretty sweet being able to animate objects though

DJ99X wrote:Just the texture. It'd be pretty sweet being able to animate objects though

Totally would be dope.!