Graphics

I am looking for a way to tell a volatile texture to loop. We have four different lower third backgrounds and use a text field for the producers to select the format they want. Our script pulls the specified background from a folder. However, the background movie animates in, and I'd like it to them loop back to frame 60. Any suggestions on how to script that? This is what we're using right now:

dim Low3 as xpTextObject
dim base as xpBaseObject
dim FilePath as String

Self.GetObjectByName("Number of lines", Low3)
FilePath = "D:\MTN News\Video\L3" & Low3.Text & ".avi"
Self.GetObjectByName("Low3base", base)
base.SetVolatileTextureFile(0,"D:\MTN News\Video\L3" & low3.text & ".avi"

Thanks in advance for any help.

The volatile texture will use the looping properties of whatever video shader is already assigned to the quad. So you can create a dummy video material set to loop and assign it to the quad in the base scene. Once that quad gets replaced with a volatile texture it will use the properties from the dummy material. Hope that makes sense.

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I'm not sure if the volatile textures can use the 3 point loop settings (loop in).. I'll look into it here and check.
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I've confirmed that volatile materials don't support using the Loop In/Out/Count values from the original video. This will be implemented in the next version of 6.7 to be released.
In the meantime it looks like you will need to create unique materials for each of the videos and assign the correct loop points in them.
You can still use the script to assign the correct material to the object, it just won't be a volatile material.

Something like: (off the top of my head)

dim mat as xpMaterial
engine.GetMaterialByName("3lineloop", mat)
base.SetMaterial(0, mat)

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