There is a way to animate UV’s! Check out the addon Animall. It’s excellent.
Like if you want to move part in a circular motion, while keeping only 1 diffuse texure. Thus enabeling you to add several islands on 1 spot, like the gears instead of using multiple planes. Is that possible?
True, that could work, and I like how you’re thinking. Just be careful not to have anything painted around each gear though or else it will spin too. So they would still have to be separate planes and still have to have transparency in order to work well.
Then model your way throught till you get the the shapes you want. Plus you can mimic the layers by arranging the objects in the Z-position.
That also works!
Same for making links to modifiers – that would been faster for sure. Thanks for the notes!
