Textures Plugins

How to use

Create a new texture object from the assets browser. You can do that by drag n drop an asset on the object or empty space in the scene. Some texture objects like advance blend require to have two textures (layers) in order to operate. You have to drag n drop two textures on them and connect as layers

Every texture object is running own render target. In case one of the properties is animated or some input relation is connected, the texture will be evaluated at run-time. For a texture object like parameteric blend that is needed to play sprite texture animations.

Texture Advance Blend

The texture object for blending two images with advanced number of composite modes and optional masking for the second image

Properties

Background color - clear color, animatable parameter, should be keyed in order to evaluate a texture object at run-time
CustomComposition - a flag that activate the advance composite logic
Blend Mode Advanced - a wide range of composition blend modes
Use Mask - a flag if the mask should be used
Mask - a mask texture

Samples

Sample file - MB_Scenes\texture_advance_blend.fbx

Texture Parameric Blend

A texture object to player sprite texture animations. This is a plugin that introduced a new texture object to unpack sprite altal into a run-time texture If you want to see the animated effect, you have to put key on BackgroundLayer property

Properties

BackgroundLayer - clear color, animatable parameter, should be keyed in order to evaluate a texture object at run-time
CustomComposition - a toggle to enable the whole parametric blend logic
Sprite Order - type of packing vector or matrix. Blended matrix is a way to interpolate between nearest frames
Count U - number of packed textures in a row in the atlas
Count V - number of packed texture in a colomn in the atlas
Param U - current parameter to define position in a row to display
Param V - current parameter to define position in a column to display
Premult Alpha - whould we multiply output texture alpha with average rgb color
Sprite Animation - a toggle to enable auto play of sprite animation
Sprite FPS - number of frames per second to play the sprite
Sprite Frames Limit - should 100, the total progress upper limit
Sprite Local Play - a toggle between real-time or play-time animation play
Sprite Local Start Time - start time for a play-time animation play
Sprite Loop Play - a toggle to switch between single or looped play