Moving textures

[Verdite]

Is it possible to apply a moving texture to an item?

[dmpdesign]

I haven't gotten it to work...pretty sure John has tested also to no avail.

[HwitVlf]

Yeah, I looked into that when Todd was still building Dark Destiny and never figured out a way that worked.
SoM didn't come with any Item textures that move (that I know of), so I doubt the engine supports them.
Would have been neat to have flaming swords and such ‎ 

[Verdite]

Too right! Tis a shame.

Whilst on the subject, could the moving texture for objects be applied to more than one face at a time, for example duplicating the black arrow, and placing it on another face, to have two or more moving faces at once?

[HwitVlf]

The 'black arrow' doesn't actually do anything special. It's just a reference to tell you what direction the texture should move and it bumps other textures into the second slot. The animation in my 'kit' uses the same setup as SoM's flowing 'Fountain'. Specifically, there is a switch in the Object's PRF that makes the second texture used on the model slide.

You can cover any number of 'faces' (aka polygons) with the moving texture, but you can't have two different textures that move on the same object. ‎  You can split a single Object into two pieces (each with a moving texture) and then place them together in game to create something that looks like a single Object.

Attached is a picture of the UV setup from my 'flowing water' Object. It actually has two separate 'flat sheet primitives', both with the moving texture attached and both have many 'faces'. I'll attach my flowing water Objects in case you don't have them and want to check them out.