Animating Video Map Texture

Hi! I’m trying to animate a rainbow LED light and I’m using a video map texture to make the colors move. As I set the material setting i realize my texture is not looping, once it reaches the last frame it goes back to the first frame and the color doesn’t match. My first thought is to remake my video map and make it on loop but I’m wondering is it possible to fix this in the app?

Is there any way to play the video map animation in reverse?

Hi,

This is not directly possible inside Keyshot, but since the video map first extracts all frames from your video on your disk, you should be able to do what you want on the frames manually on disk (for example, remove the last frame of the video).

To play a video map in reverse, you can rename the frame files on disk to be in reverse order. Unfortunately, that would be tedious to do manually, ideally you would use some kind of script to do that. In the end it will probably be faster to reverse the video in your video editing program.

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Oh well, you’re right. Thank you for the reply!