Painting Animated Textures

Before you paint the animated textures, make sure you've painted all the non-animated elements of your textures. Any paint you add after you've inserted a keyframe only appears in one part of the animation (see the example above).

Once you've got your initial texture set, you can set keyframes.

Setting Keyframes

To set a keyframe:

1.

Move to the frame that you want to set as your keyframe.

2.

Click or press Ctrl/Cmd+K to set a keyframe.

The new keyframe displays as a square in the keyframe timeline.

3.

You can remove keyframes by selecting the keyframe in the timeline and clicking .

Removing a keyframe also removes any paint for that keyframe. Be careful when removing keyframes if you've done any painting!

Painting the Textures

To paint a texture within a section of animation:

1.

Move to a frame somewhere within the section of animation you want to paint.

It doesn't matter which frame within the section you move to - the paint displays until the next keyframe.

2.

Paint your textures as normal.

Bear in mind that:

• Any textures you paint within one section disappear when you reach the next keyframe.

• You can paint, then add another keyframe, to “build up” an animated texture (see the Example in Painting Animated Objects for an explanation).