need urgent help...with noob query about mapping node

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hi

i am stuck on this for over 2 hours now, and i can’t seem to figure it out. and unfortunately the docs didn’t help much either.

i marked the image in three colors…

yellow > yellow
red > red
what and why is that green part?

and the mapping node marked red wont do anything… the green one does it transforms…but i can not animate any of those parameters.

i just need to animate the offset the texture.

can anyone point me to the mistake i am making (or not looking at the right place)

thanks a ton in advance.
m.

PS: i am almost totally noob in blender

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You should be able to offset a texture and animate with the mapping node (in Red). Try the Location X & Y slider.
If that doesn’t work there would be some other problem.

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i know that part. and what you just said is exactly how it should work. but it doesn’t. only the green marked area is able to do it.

Additional info: the texture is mapped on a material which is applied to a vertex group (i mean the object has two materials applied to parts of the object) this is about one of them.

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Can you upload the file so we can check it out?

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Works for me. Frames 8 and 21 in the shot

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Are you keying the sliders? By hovering over the appropriate slider and hitting the I key? If you look at Ja12’s image you can see the x location has keys. Indicated by the green highlight. I don’t see that or anything in your timeline to indicate that the change in value is actually keyed.

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Do you have more than one UV mapping for the object? Just a thought.