Retrieving RGB Pixel Values from a texture

[inspleak]

First actually, I would like to say thanks for all of the people who have helped me get accustomed to MEL... I wouldn't have been able to adapt to it this fast without this forum... so thanks... but I still have another question..

I am looking for a way to store the color values of each pixel in a texture... actually for now just the Gray Scale 0-255 value.. and I want to store it in an array.. any ideas on how to retrieve those values from a texture?

thanks so much in advance!

-Jake

[rob-bateman]

I dont think this is possible with mel. I know that in the api you can use the MImage class to load a texture file and then retrieve information with that. It should be possible to create a command that will load a texture and then allow you to query it, pretty much mimicking MImage functionality in a mel command. I don't know if that will be of any use to you...

[mfiorilli]

hey guys!

why not use the 'iffcmd' mel command??? it can be found in maya api.

/mike

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I dont think this is possible with mel. I know that in the api you can use the MImage class to load a texture file and then retrieve information with that. It should be possible to create a command that will load a texture and then allow you to query it, pretty much mimicking MImage functionality in a mel command. I don't know if that will be of any use to you...