Animate texture to follow shape

[maeshanne]

Is there a way to make this texture animation follow the shape of the object instead of just going up?

[joseph]

Yep, use Follow Active Quads as the Unwrap choice

[maeshanne]

Thanks! This is kinda what I want, only I want the image to not be distorted at the end of the animation.

Maybe I can only achieve this by animating the UVs?

[Okidoki]

You may have a look here:

Unwrap to same lenght quads?

I’m not sure what you do here: if your mesh is rectangular… then simple unwrap it… if not then use oen of these: to square grid from UVSquares gridify from UVTools rectify from the TexTools