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borisb2
12-14-2009, 09:07 AM
The colorAtPoint-command seems to just read the specified texture but not it's input-nodes (what's plugged into ColorGain for example). That is too bad.

The idea is to use texture-based emission from surfaces. Unfortunately to direct plug the texture into the Emitter (as supposed) is even worse. The Emitter node won't read ocean as well as shader-networks. With the colorAtPoint method (killing all particles with lifeSpanPP=0 for all particles below a certain value) I at least can use ocean textures etc.

Is there any trick or workaround for that?

Thanks
Htogrom
12-14-2009, 09:47 AM
There's plugin called Stroika.

It has sampler emitter. You can sample shading network, really useful for disintegration
Cheesestraws
12-14-2009, 09:54 AM
Bake the textures?
borisb2
12-14-2009, 11:29 AM
sure baking would work, but I wanted to keep it procedural

I'll definitly have a look into stroika .. thanks for that

Cheers
borisb2
12-14-2009, 01:44 PM
uups .. that plugin is 300.- USD .. and it's stating just for Maya 2008 so far

Has anyone used it for 2009/10 ?
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