Two Animated Emissives per part?

[ZodiusInfuser]

Hi,

As part of my model rework for Infernal Robotics, I've been playing around with emissive textures to make rotation direction markers visible in all light conditions. My current styling, as you can see here, is an extra piece of geometry with two halves, one of which glows more than the other (indicating the primary direction).

Unfortunately this doesn't account for the fact that players can invert the direction of rotation of these parts. Presuming I can get code support from Sirkut, what I would like to do is have the lights switch based on whether the invert flag is set or not. I was thinking perhaps having an emissive for each light, representing full brightness, with an animation each that fades from a dull glow to a full glow. The dull glow is so that the "inactive" light is still visible in dark environments. By controlling both animations the effect of turning one light off and the other on could be achieved.

Would this be the best way to go about having separately controlled lights on a part?

Thanks in advance,

-Zodius

[SpannerMonkey(smce)]

I've never managed to get two actual emissive anims working together in any version of unity, the only way i can get physics anims to work in multiple is to cut the model and animate seperately then assemble in unity.

But I also have a need for multicolored emissives and I opt for the cheat route, generally most emissives textures are white but I color mine the color i want then set the emissive slider on the material to a white value from the default black, of course the downside is that they glow all the time but if all you need is a right side and a wrong side this'd be the easy way out I reckon.

works well for most things i find pic below using colored emis

Ps really liking the models BTW

[ZodiusInfuser]

I've never managed to get two actual emissive anims working together in any version of unity, the only way i can get physics anims to work in multiple is to cut the model and animate seperately then assemble in unity.

Thanks for this. I may try separating these elements out to see if I can come up with a solution. That being said, if multiple animations aren't possible this effort might well be in vein.

But I also have a need for multicolored emissives and I opt for the cheat route, generally most emissives textures are white but I color mine the color i want then set the emissive slider on the material to a white value from the default black, of course the downside is that they glow all the time but if all you need is a right side and a wrong side this'd be the easy way out I reckon.

works well for most things i find pic below using colored emis

This is useful to know. I just assumed they must always be white

[CaptainKipard]

You can get in touch with the Simian Endeavors creator if you click the link in my signature. He's made two separate animations for those engines.