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Justin, >> … how to animate a texture lofting along a helix path, like to simulate flow through a spiral straw … << the cheapest way, and probably most effective, is to turn on lofted mapping when creating the object. Probably use settings 1 and 1. Then create an animated opacity map – a white to black animation over x frames. You use both the texture map and the opacity map as a material on the straw.