I wish to display videos on planes, sides of cube, etc. similar to a computer monitor or projected image. In blender this is a material / texture type. I can't seem to find it in GG and google has not assisted me. Please point me at it, or suggest another product that may assist (appgamekit?). Thank you!

Did this a while ago now and tuts several times here. Do a search on videotexture should point you to my tutorials hopefully .

This cannot be done in Game Guru like it could in FPSC. In FPSC, you could simply select an AVI file to be a texture. The method Bored of the Rings is referring to is a workaround that involves making an atlas texture where you basically lay out every frame of your video on a huge texture and the shader just displays each frame one after another. It's totally impractical for anything longer than a few seconds though. Let's say your video is 25 seconds long; that's 625 frames at PAL 25 fps. Even if each frame is only 256 x 256, which is really low resolution but might work for a screen or something, your atlas texture would need to be 6,400 pixels wide and 6,400 tall. That's a huge memory overhead for something that's effective a background prop.

It's sad TGC never carried over this functionality from FPSC, I miss it dearly.

AE

here is a link, if you want to try this workaround:

https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/217140#msg2568774

and here:

https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/217140#msg2568821

and more info here:

https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/217140#msg2568989

Great to see this was looked at in the past, nice links for those diving in.

Here's a random video, had to do a new shader for this one. Biotech 100% real

Thank you very greatly indeed Bored of the Rings, Avenging Eagle. Great info. My use case is much longer video, 4 streams, 30 minutes each in my test case. I feel a different tool set might be needed for my solution.

Video textures working in a forked/modified version of (old) GG Classic, it would be great to have something similar in Max at some point in the future:



Cheers.

Miss video textures in GGMax, love them.