Driving a Color At Vertices (CAV) map using ICE?

[Bradley Gabe]

Does anyone know how to get the context to work, in order to drive per point values into a CAV map?

I have multiple weight maps on a mesh, and I'd like to use their per point scalar values to drive a resulting vertex color map.

If this is not possible, that would also be good to know. :-)

-Bradley

[Sajjad Amjad]

Hi,
Not exactly sure what you're after but perhaps the following link can help:
http://vimeo.com/7052244
I made this a few years ago. There's a link to a downloadable scene on the page.

Cheers,

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"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative" - O. Wilde

[Vladimir Jankijevic]

you have to look it up from the node context. so a tree like this should work:

getData(self.nodelocation)->getData(cls.WeightMapCls.Weight_Map.Weights)->gradient->setData(XXXXX.cls.UV_Cluster_AUTO.Vertex_Color.Colors)

cheers

vladimir

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[Bradley Gabe]

It's working, thanks for the help!

[Grahame Fuller]

Or put the weights into an object-context array using Build Array from Set, then

GetData(self.NodeToVertex) --> SelectInArray

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Subject: Re: Driving a Color At Vertices (CAV) map using ICE?

you have to look it up from the node context. so a tree like this should work:

getData(self.nodelocation)->getData(cls.WeightMapCls.Weight_Map.Weights)->gradient->setData(XXXXX.cls.UV_Cluster_AUTO.Vertex_Color.Colors)

cheers
vladimir

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Sajjad Amjad <sajjad...@gmail.com<mailto:sajjad...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
Not exactly sure what you're after but perhaps the following link can help:
http://vimeo.com/7052244
I made this a few years ago. There's a link to a downloadable scene on the page.

Cheers,

On 27 February 2012 17:04, Bradley Gabe <with...@gmail.com<mailto:with...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Does anyone know how to get the context to work, in order to drive per point values into a CAV map?

I have multiple weight maps on a mesh, and I'd like to use their per point scalar values to drive a resulting vertex color map.

If this is not possible, that would also be good to know. :-)

-Bradley

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"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative" - O. Wilde

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Vladimir Jankijevic
Technical Direction

Elefant Studios AG
Lessingstrasse 15
CH-8002 Zürich

+41 44 500 48 20

www.elefantstudios.ch<http://www.elefantstudios.ch>
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[Leonard Koch]

Yes that is possible.

The trick here is the nodelocation value.

The graph in the image I attached should do it.

[Matt Lind]

Weight maps stored data on vertices, vertex colors store data on Polygon Nodes.

 

My experience in the past has been to do everything at the most granular level and do the up-sample if needed.  In this case, define your main context as polygon node and try to upsample to the vertex to get any weight map value.  It’s a PITA to get working.

 

Matt

[Sam Cuttriss]

agreed, ive found ice gets a bit frustrating to query/set node level data from a different context.

[Bradley Gabe]

It's not a PITA in this case, it's pretty easy to get the exact effect I was after (blending weightmaps) using the following tree:

[Matt Lind]

When you start doing other things such as get closest location from other parts of the mesh, it gets a little harry to deal with as you’ll run into more context issues.

[Sam Cuttriss]

or UV manipulations  across dislocated islands