Controlling UVs through a Bone

[brandtahoward]

Yo guys,

I am making a character with oval eyes and the best way I can find to animate them is by moving the UVs. I was wondering if it is at all possible to rig a UV modifier up to a bone (I am currently using CAT) in order to animate the UVs (preferably in a fashion similar to this: https://youtu.be/pvLG4rmkB8A) and be able to export it into Unreal.

If there is a better or easier option, please let me know.

If this is impossible, I will start sculpting round eyes instead cuz I've been trying to figure this out for years.

I have also been told to just animate the material inside of Unreal, since we already have it hooked up to a Material Instance that controls the UV offset for the X and Y of the UVs, but it'd be easier for me to animate eye animations inside of 3DS Max.

[fla3d]

You can add an UVW Xform modifier and then use wire parameters to link the U and V offset to a bone rotation. You'll just have to rebuild the link in Unreal Engine as showed in the video.