MEL a way to read light of an object

[trancor]

Well, if the light is moving, the verts can't dynamicly be added and deleted.

But do you mean something like this?

http://upload.metal-asylum.net/cgtalk/bump.png

the alpha on the fade on thise (really bad image) is actually a light setting the fade.


If this is what you want to do, you need to link the light's Light Intensity to the Shader, not an object.


http://upload.metal-asylum.net/cgtalk/LightTrans.jpg


You can write a mel script to change and alter the verts of an object because of the light, but not deleting the polies.

[trancor]

http://upload.metal-asylum.net/cgtalk/LightTransCorrect.jpg

I realized I messed up the hypergraph set up in the first post for the lighting. This should work though.

[dan1el]

ok, so the shader tells if it's receiving any lights. can it tell which surface contains that shader which doesn't receive lights, then it could store the name and then delete it afterwards.
Is that correct understood ?

[trancor]

If you turned every face on the object into their own objects, then yes, but not as one solid object.

[Norb]

You could try baking in vertex colors, and then selecting the verts/faces based on a given tolerance or set color. i.e. select all the black faces since they didn't get lit.

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