Animated Textures

Using the Paint Effects view plane you can create animated textures. For example, you could create a texture that has vines growing on it, or create a texture that changes color, then apply the animated texture to surfaces. To create an animated texture 1. [Optional] For a seamless repeating texture, turn wrap on as follows: o Select Paint Effects > Paint Effects Globals. The Paint Effects Globals window opens. o Expand Scene and turn on Scene Wrap H and Scene Wrap V. This causes strokes in the scene to wrap over the edges of the view plane, as if the view plane were a canvas. 2. Select Paint Effects > Paint on View Plane. 3. Go to the scene painting view if you are not already in it (press the 8 hotkey to open the Paint Effects panel and select Paint > Paint Scene) and paint your strokes on the view plane. Although the stroke wireframes display between 0 and 1 in world space, the strokes will render on the view plane. 4. Animate the strokes using the techniques described in this chapter. 5. Render the animation. See Create a composite of Paint Effects strokes and your scene.