Animated Background

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Is there any way to import an animated background for example a crowd in a theatre or arena cheering. I want to save resources. In Poser, I noticed you can import a .avi onto a plain one-sided square! Is this possible in DAZ Studio 4.21? If not is there any script or third-party content available that would do the job? Cheers

Pickle Renderer

There are a few "animated texture" scripts floating about in the store.  They're all actually a bit rubbish compared to what a native implementation would do, but they do the job.

Richard Haseltine

You can, however, render to an image sequence as PNG or Tiff and then composite the results on top of the animated background.

cain-x

DAZ really could use more animation friendly features. However, with DAZ scripting, there is some help there.

I found this https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/249881/timer-and-time-changing and it helped provide the foundation to create this:
https://imgur.com/a/VHDILUS

// DAZ Studio version 4.20.0.17 filetype DAZ Scriptvar imgr = App.getImageMgr();var tick = Scene.getTimeStep();var fr = Scene.getTime() / tick;var index = fr;if(fr < 100) index = '0' + index;if(fr < 10) index = '0' + index;var img = imgr.getImage("X:/TEMP/TEST" + index + ".png");if (!img) print("FALSE"); print('This is index ' + index);Scene.getBackdrop().setTexture( img );

The directory needs to be filled with sequential images that are properly numbered (i.e. TEST001.png. TEST002.png, etc...). Frame 0 is blank in my case but maybe you'll find a better solution.

You can change the script to work on any surface map. Here is one where I change the Environment Map for every frame to create the lighting effect (the model and vehicle are 3D models. The environment map are sequential images from a dash cam):

https://imgur.com/a/mpN8M9C