can you layer textures on one object?

[Brian Jones]

the most basic way is to use the Material Tag add a keyframe 1st frame (or wherever) on the Material property of the tag. Move the timeline down as far as you want and drag and drop a new material into the material property then add a keyframe for that. It will fade from the first to the second material.

[Scyld]

hey, thanks. i’m actually trying to understand this previous post: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/19/872057
but i’m struggling to figure out how to get the imported textures to layer… does anyone know any tutorials that cover this?

[Brian Jones]

1338_layercrossfade.zip

a simple example in the alpha channel. At it’s simplest you just set the values you want beside each image (0% to 100%) at the frame you want and keyframe it with the dot to the left of the word Layers up top. Adam’s example is more or less the same excepting with that method if you have many layers in there you can keyframe only one at a time (if that’s all you need) but if you don’t show the subchannels and use the general Layers keyframe button all the layers get keyframed. You get the same results but the subchannels way is a lot easier to work with in the Timeline/F-Curves if you are not animating all the elements in a Layer Shader.

[Randal Radabaugh]

hey sean, I think you are referring to my post on the alpha trans.

Here is a good tut on ocaean waves by John Castarphan.

It may help you understand more of what I think you are asking.

https://vimeo.com/12972558

In it you will find- as I tried to say in other post.
The mixing of layers. In this tut it is mostly shaders,
You just substitute the shaders he is making with images per the image button. Then you can mix them as he does with the shaders.

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[Scyld]

many thanks for all this help people, but i must be really stupid. i’m a long time AE user so i’m finding it really hard to find the right way to do this: all i want to do is fade between 2 displacement maps, both using the noise bitmaps. the John Castarphan tutorial touches on this but he moves so fast through i keep missing it… argh! is there a beginners dumb ass tutorial on how to layer up textures and key frame the opacity between them?

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Hi Sean,

I did a little video tutorial — hopefully it’ll clear things up. Requires techsmith codec: https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/Layer_XFade.avi

[Scyld]

adam, you sir are a gentleman… that was perfect. clear, precise and easy to understand. exactly what an idiot like me needed… you should post it so everyone has access. many thanks!

[Scyld]

hi adam,

could i ask (read beg) you to do another one of your super simple video tutorials to explain how to attach sound effector to these displacement maps? i’ve tried to follow the .c4d file you uploaded but without some kind of basic explanation i’m completely stumped… anyway happy holidays to you sir.