Entity Texture Animations

Whats on this page? ​

From this page you will learn how to make an animated texture for an entity. Animated, like a flipbook texture for blocks.

Source ​

This page is based on content by AgentMindStorm.

Textures ​

First let's draw some new texture frames for our entity. In this tutorial it will be a cow, which is looking around.

We need to place our textures vertically, like for blocks in flipbook textures. In this case we have 4 frames.

Materials ​

We will need to modify materials in this guide. However due to render dragon materials became outdated, so use it at your own risk.

To use animated texture, we need to change the entity material to one, that has USE_UV_ANIM property. Let's simply add a new material:

{
    "materials": {
        "version": "1.0.0",
        "custom_animated:entity": {
            "+defines": ["USE_UV_ANIM"]
        }
    }
}

Or you can add this to existing ones, check default material file.

"+defines":[
    "USE_UV_ANIM"
]

Client Entity File ​

Before we go next, we need to define a new material in our client entity file.

"materials": {
	"default": "custom_animated"
}

Render Controllers ​

After that all, we need to edit a render controller.

Here we will add uv_anim component with offset and scale properties:

"uv_anim": {
    "offset": [ 0.0, "math.mod(math.floor(q.life_time * frames_per_second),frame_count) / frame_count" ],
    "scale": [ 1.0, "1 / frame_count" ]
}

Where frames_per_second is a count of frames you want to change in one second and frame_count is a total frame count. This formula calculates the offset and the size of the texture depending on life time.

Testing ​

Now, it is time to test your creation!

Download Example ​