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I have a B/W pattern on a torus and I wanted to make it slowly move down so it gets the effect of coming out of the hole in the middle.

I am working in UV mapping right now, and I'm scaling the raster up and down over my texture, which gives me the desired effect. How would I animate this?

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One way I do this is through creating multiple uv maps.

  1. Create the first UV map as usual.

  2. In the Object Data panel click the "+" to add a new UV Map.

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  1. In the UV/Image Editor the new UV Map will now be active. Move the UV Map (G) to the new desired location.

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  1. In the Node Editor create two "UV Map" nodes from the input submenu, selecting one of your UV Maps on each.

  2. Plug them into a color, Mix RGB node.

  3. Use this as the input for the Vector value on your image texture node.

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  4. The Factor (Fac) value is now the value for going between the two UV maps.

  5. Animate this value by pressing i while your mouse hovers over the fac field. You should place the first keyframe when the slider is at 0 and your time cursor is at the beginning of your animation, and the second when the slider is at 1 and your time cursor is at the end of the animation.

In the end, your final result should look like this:

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Please note: this method works for scaling, and translating. Small rotations (< 90 degrees) will work okay, but any larger will start to cause larger distortions and other methods should be use.

I hope this was helpful.

Thank you,

Uncle Snail

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  • $\begingroup$ Interesting technique, blending between two UV maps. It will work with scaling and translating but I don’t think it will work with rotation - the Mix will produce a linear blend between the two maps. $\endgroup$
    – Rich Sedman
    Nov 15, 2018 at 21:07
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks i like this technique! just before you posted i found a little add on called animall where you can just slide the UV map and it will make keypoints for you $\endgroup$
    – Juriaan
    Nov 16, 2018 at 8:41
  • $\begingroup$ @RichSedman You are most likely correct, in that rotation will not work correctly in regard to the speed and orientation of the rotation, however, I did try rotation during my tests and was surprised to find that it did actually work. $\endgroup$
    – Uncle Snail
    Nov 22, 2018 at 16:51
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    $\begingroup$ @UncleSnail Small rotations should be fine - any distortion shouldn't be noticeable. However, try rotating by 180 degrees.... you'll find it will collapse down to a point before re-expanding again - as each vertex will follow a straight-line path to the new point. Regardless of this though, nice solution for translation and scaling. $\endgroup$
    – Rich Sedman
    Nov 22, 2018 at 17:05
  • $\begingroup$ Okay, that makes sense and I didn't try a rotation that large. Thank you for all the input! :) (I will also edit the answer) $\endgroup$
    – Uncle Snail
    Nov 24, 2018 at 3:22

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