use a avi as texture

[DANGH_b]

Hy!
Can i use an avi as a texture, how?
What can i do to make a texture from a movie and then aply it to a 3d model?

[Sean Wilson]

> Can i use an avi as a texture, how?

> What can i do to make a texture from a movie and then aply it to a 3d model?

Check out
<http://poppy.macromedia.com/~thiggins/articles/videotextures/_archive/index.htm>

[Aldo Hoeben]

Sean Wilson wrote:

>> Can i use an avi as a texture, how?
>> What can i do to make a texture from a movie and then aply it to a 3d
>> model?

>
>
> Check out
> <http://poppy.macromedia.com/~thiggins/articles/videotextures/_archive/index.htm>
>

or
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/director/articles/streaming_video.html[/url]

[DANGH_b]

Thank you for the help. I tried to make he animaed texture using copypixels.I
wanted to copythe image from an avi file and the images received were to be
made textures. pImage = image(640,480,32) pImage.fill(pImage.rect,rgb(0,0,0))
pImage.copyPixels( (the stage).image, pImage.rect, rect(0,0,640,480) ) I
put the images in a castmember. At first i copy the first image on the begining
of the sprite and the image captures the picture from the avi. When i try to
updtate the image on the exitframe the picture captivates everything in the
stage but the movie. Why? Please help

[Sean Wilson]

Do you need to turn off direct-to-stage for your avi member perhaps?

[DANGH_b]

Stupid me.
That was the problem.Thank you a lot.

[DANGH_b]

The video texture takes it`s images from the stage. CAn i do something to hide
the movie in the stage without afecting the textures? Can i play an avi from
outside the movie. Something like: sound(3).playFile( If not. Can i import the
file as quicktime with lingo. Thank you for reading.

[Sean Wilson]

For a projector implementation, you could play the video in an invisible
MIAW and grab it's stage.image
For Shockwave, you can hide areas of the stage by altering the HTML that
embeds/objectifies the dcr.

[Aldo Hoeben]

Sean Wilson wrote:

> For a projector implementation, you could play the video in an invisible
> MIAW and grab it's stage.image
> For Shockwave, you can hide areas of the stage by altering the HTML that
> embeds/objectifies the dcr.

Both methods are described in the article on DevNet (along with sample
movies)

[DANGH_b]

Thanks now it works. But still i am confrunting another problem: The dir file
that is in the miaw window uses a file that i desperately need to rename at the
end of the movie. In the director help it says that window.forget() doesn`t
work if i have multiple global references to the miaw dir, and it didn`t work
to close the miaw window at the end of the movie(on stopmovie). And if i don`t
close the window, then i can`t rename the file. I tried windows('
name').close(), but it still didn`t work. Please help!!!!!!