Paint Effects Texture Options

[dryodryo]

Hi,

Is there any way to use standard render nodes inside a paint effects brush? Specifically, I want to modulate opacity over the U dimension of a tube. The default U Ramp that's built into the brush node only provides a linear transition between two values. A Ramp or Remap Value node would do the trick nicely, if I could only plug it into the brush.

I know I can choose "File" as the brush's Texture Type, but I'd rather not in this case. The tubes are very long and narrow, which would require a file map with an extreme aspect ratio. And of course, it would be so much better to do it procedurally because I get realtime feedback in Maya.

Thanks!

[mayacner]

QUOTE(DoctorYo @ 02/05/08, 05:38 PM) [snapback]280655[/snapback]
Hi,

Is there any way to use standard render nodes inside a paint effects brush? Specifically, I want to modulate opacity over the U dimension of a tube. The default U Ramp that's built into the brush node only provides a linear transition between two values. A Ramp or Remap Value node would do the trick nicely, if I could only plug it into the brush.

I know I can choose "File" as the brush's Texture Type, but I'd rather not in this case. The tubes are very long and narrow, which would require a file map with an extreme aspect ratio. And of course, it would be so much better to do it procedurally because I get realtime feedback in Maya.

Thanks!

maybe you can convert it to polygons,and modify its shader's transparancy channel directly through mapping:)

[dryodryo]

I doubt that would work because I'm using Flow Animation with Texture Flow.

[mayacner]

QUOTE(DoctorYo @ 02/07/08, 02:59 PM) [snapback]280798[/snapback]
I doubt that would work because I'm using Flow Animation with Texture Flow.

Because when converting paintEffects to polygons,the construction history between the polygons and the original paintEffects is not broken,so your texture flow animation should also kept for the outMesh:)

[dryodryo]

Wow, that's great! I didn't expect the UV coordinates to come through, but they did. Thanks!

Paint Effects is one of the coolest things in the world.