Videos on surfaces in 2.6

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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I noticed in the latest version of Blender (don’t remember if 2.4 allowed this) that you can select an image sequence or movie and place it on a surface. When “auto refresh” is enabled, the texture will play as the timeline advances, which is a feature I already used in blender render.

Does this also work in the game engine, or do you still need a script to play movies on surfaces (for things like screens)? I’m inclined to think this should work without a script because it shows in the 3D view, and as a general rule what works there will work in BGE. But when I set the movie texture and enabled auto-refresh it still showed only the first frame… even if I set an f-curve actuator on that object. Anyone have more info on this?

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You can use the texture module to play any format supported by ffmpeg.

I don’t have a specific tutorial for that, but I did make one that uses Render To Texture, via the same api, so that might be helpful in this case:

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@MirceaKitsune - Which means that you’ll need to use Python and a script. Python is used to tell the game engine to swap out the object’s texture with the next frame of the video.

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I’m not sure about getting it working just with the native methods, but you can get it working very easily with just a couple of logic blocks and a tiny python program.

videoTexture.blend (77.7 KB)

In the text file just change the path and file on the first line keeping the ’ ’ quotes intact. (If your using windows you have to use / characters in your paths instead of \ characters)

*This is a test project I adapted from another members post for an older blender project in the forum