Hi,
Could you please advise me how I can set up a system to change the moon texture every day?
I have an MPC in which there are several parameters to control the textures of moons and suns. I also have a material where I have my base textures for suns and moons.
However, for one moon, I want to use a texture change every night to create the effect of changing phases.
I’ve tried to customise on my own, but I’ve just hit a wall.
I’ve created a Texture Archive and am trying to set everything up to interact with it, but I just seem to be doing everything wrong. I’ve hooked up all the new settings to the update node. But the texture doesn’t change.
How can I get the desired result? How in theory should a workflow like this even be created? Please advise.
MOD(INT((B2-DATE(2000;1;6))/27,3);4)+1 is the first result of a formula on stack overflow.
Date here is based on Jan 6, 2000
You can also have a small script to print out the current phase of the moon into a textfile that gets loaded in and checked against. I find this to be an easy solution, but it may not work for everyone’s application, as it would need to be called outside of the main program, through a C++ script, or through the python objects.
