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Adding movies and replacing/hiding parts of a mesh/object

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Francesco:
Thank you guys, although I'm not sure about what you are speaking about.

It is half of my fault, because here in this thread I've presented two things:
- some ways to get around the missing animated materials;
- an idea about a new feature (the "exchange objects" view-portals made with special objects/materials);

The thing that interests me the most is the latter, although I find the former to be useful too.

Well, in any case, the idea is there.

headwax:
I like it all :)

After your suggestion I made a circular object with a series of flat faces, dteached all the faces so they were seperate meshes, applied a series of jpgs which represented a simple animation, put the mesh behind a screen so that only one face showed at a time, revolved it in scene mode, and presto. Works fine for an interesting animated background effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxinoscope

above for when anim8or gets light through transparency

you could also use a flip book technique

Francesco:
It's nice to see workarounds implemented, glad to see that you had a try at that.

The praxinoscope is cool, and, would you guess? It reharsed another old idea in my mind, thank you for the pointer once again!

Boywonda1:
The hiding thing would be coo :)l.
My idea is placing an animatable black and white linear gradient on a material to create an alpha mask on the material and hence hiding part/half of the object.

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