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Chris

10-01-2007, 11:45 PM

I'm wondering if its possible to take a point on a surface of an object in the viewport, and return the contributing value & colour of lights affecting it (kind of like those light meter-ey things photographers use), allowing for falloff hopefully. I had a quick look in the maxscript manual, but couldnt find anything... Anyone have any suggestions? :)

timothyc

10-02-2007, 04:49 AM

go to www.maxplugins.de (http://www.maxplugins.de) and do a search for "photometer".

Last time I looked there was no mxs access to it, however.

TC

Chris

10-02-2007, 09:24 PM

cheers for that, thats the kind of thing I need, I just need to figure out how to do it in Maxscript! looks like I have some reading to do... Thanks again :)

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