Animating UVs – scrolling textures
Scrolling textures are a general purpose requirement for lots of games, and yet, they are not natively supported by Unity; that is, they require you to "get coding" for their implementation. Scrolling textures are useful for parallax effects; to move clouds, surfaces, and water; or to express motion or movement in the game. Typically, scrolling textures are seamless images whose pixels tile vertically and horizontally. This allows infinite scrolling and repetition, as shown here:
Scrolling texture on a Quad
When attached to a Quad, the following code sample 9-3 will animate its texture according to the horizontal ...
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