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# 1 08-08-2004 , 12:52 AM
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Problem with Movie Texture

Hey Guys,

I'm having problems with adding a movie texture to a polygon plane. I have a scene with a character sitting in his easy chair watching TV. I would like to apply an animated texture to the TV screen. I've tried avi, qt and a targa image sequence, but with no luck. I would appreciate any help.

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# 2 08-08-2004 , 12:56 AM
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.avi's usually work. Make sure you turn on the Use Frame Extension attribute for the Movie file.

# 3 08-08-2004 , 04:09 AM
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I opened up my movie file attribute editor and loaded my avi movie file under file attributes, and can't find Turn on Use Frame Extension anywhere. Am I in the wrong area?

# 4 08-08-2004 , 04:47 AM
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It should be in the movie file attributes right under where you browse for the file.

# 5 08-08-2004 , 01:57 PM
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Attached is the actual screen shot of the movie attribute editor, and I can’t seem to locate the Turn on Use Frame Extension. You said it is under the file browser?

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# 6 08-08-2004 , 02:41 PM
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What version of Maya are you running?

I believe you'll need to check "Use Image Sequence" and the keyframe the Image Number box to play the video.

Later versions of Maya made the process a bit easier.

# 7 08-08-2004 , 05:59 PM
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I am running MAYA 6. When I loaded the avi the image does not show up on the object. I have hardware texturing on.

When I select Use Image Sequence the Image Number opens up, what do I type in? What does Frame offset do?

What steps do I follow to get this thing to work? Is this a bug in maya? Does the movie texture actually work?

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# 8 08-08-2004 , 06:06 PM
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I have a tutorial at my website (link below) about this. Maybe it'll help.

# 9 08-08-2004 , 07:18 PM
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Thanks for all of your help, I figured it out. I found out that Maya was not reading the avi codec, so I went into premiere and changed it into an uncompressed avi. I guess MAYA is very picky about compressed avi's. Hey, you learn something new about MAYA everyday.


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