Switch between video and image with replaceTexture

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2020-07-21 at 4:37 pm #30425

web
Customer

I’ve got a little issue with the replaceTexture puzzle.

I would like to have two buttons, to switch between playing a video and showing an image on an object.

Problem is that, as soon as I replace the map with the video, I can no longer switch back to the image, cause the map name doesnt exist anymore.

What can I do to fix this?

2020-07-22 at 5:43 am #30447

Mikhail Luzyanin
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web wrote:

Problem is that, as soon as I replace the map with the video, I can no longer switch back to the image, cause the map name doesnt exist anymore.

Use two materials that look the same, load video texture into one and replace materials.

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2020-07-22 at 7:47 am #30452

web
Customer

Okay, will do it that way.
Thx

2020-07-31 at 2:50 pm #31011

web
Customer

Have to get back with this. This worked at first, but now it doesnt anymore and I dont know why.

Maybe because of the latest update?

I tried to debug this with a simple scene and pure puzzles. And it seems that after assigning the video material to the object, the other material gets deleted from the scene. Because after that happens the puzzle shows the material in red letters and in the dropdown it isnt anymore.

2020-08-03 at 9:54 am #31059

web
Customer

Sorry to push that issue again. Would need to get this fixed pretty soon. So would be great if someone of the devs could get back to me

Otherwise I would maybe need to create materials on runtime via javascript to workaround that issue.

2020-08-03 at 10:12 am #31061

Alexander Kovelenov
Staff

Hi,
in Verge3D 3.3 we introduced a feature when materials being replaced by other materials are automatically cleaned up. If you need to preserve it, assign (in the loaded asset or dynamically, via Puzzle) to some other invisible or remote object. So I believe in your case the issue is with geo_video material being clean-up by Screen material.

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2020-08-03 at 10:27 am #31062

web
Customer

Nevermind, got it working.
I just created two hidden objects as material holders.

This way its working.

2020-08-03 at 10:30 am #31063

Alexander Kovelenov
Staff

Simply assign the test material on some invisible plane in your modeling tool and reexport.

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2020-08-03 at 10:33 am #31065

web
Customer

Damn, to slow.
Got it working. Exactly as you said

2020-08-03 at 10:57 am #31066

Alexander Kovelenov
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Great!

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2020-09-10 at 4:59 pm #32705

nwn43
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Would you be able to show me (screenshots) of how you accomplished this? I’m looking to do the exact same thing. Possibly to swap a video texture with another video as well. I’m very new to this, and this has been a big stumbling block for something I’m looking to do. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

2020-09-11 at 10:30 am #32736

Yuri Kovelenov
Staff

Hi,

you can check out the demo Video Texture if you’re using the Blender version.

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2020-09-11 at 5:55 pm #32773

nwn43
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I looked at the blender monitor/aquarium file. I was able to change the image texture to a video texture, but I was not able to replace the video texture with an image, or another video texture.

2020-09-12 at 6:46 am #32788

Yuri Kovelenov
Staff

There were issues with video textures fixed in version 3.4 preview. You might give it a try. Here is a setup that works for me:

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