what type of shader should i use to put the 2 movies? and is there a way to use only one quicktime movie (exported with alpah from flash)?

what type of shader should i use to put the 2 movies? and is there a way to use only one quicktime movie (exported with alpah from flash)?

Check this thread out, all you wanna know it's there, in detail:

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/2263/movie-texture-blending

.mov are converted to ogg theora videos which is the only video format that works natively in unity.

What you basically need is a shader, no code actually. The shader does nothing else than using the second movie texture as the alpha mask for the first movie texture.

If you stored luminance / brightness data in the second one to represent the alpha, then its just a matter of reading the color of the second and assign the g, r or b component to the a (alpha) component of the first texture.

That way movie texture 1 will use the R / G / B channel of movie texture 2 as its alpha channel.

As for the intensity: they are done fully decompressed in cpu as far as I'm aware. As such you should avoid having too large movies, especially nothing in the range of HD, if it shall run on normal machines too.

@spencer

Oh my! If you can give away the code for this .mov material you speak of, I would be sooo very excited. I'm currently trying to do the same.

If you can't give out the code, could you explain how the code works? Maybe I'll whip up my own version.

Thanks!

-paul