Ok, I’m so close…
What I’m trying to do is have a colour picker change the first colour of a falloff map, and then have the second colour of the falloff map be a slightly darker version of the colour.
colorpicker theColor "Colour" color:[0,0,255] modal:false pos:[500,500]
on theColor changed new_col do
(
meditMaterials[1].texmap_diffuse.color1 = new_col
meditMaterials[1].texmap_diffuse.color2 = new_col.value - 50
)
Now from what I’ve been reading up from the maxscript help is that colors are 3point values. However the color component properties such as H.S.V are floats. So what I was trying to do here is decrease the value by 50, yet it comes back with a “Unable to convert to Point 3” error…
What am I misunderstanding?
Thanks
And Merry Christmas!
Do you have a scene you could post with all the code? I’m trying to guess what you are trying to do this to but keep getting errors myself.
meditMaterials[1][#Maps][#Diffuse_Color__Map__1____Falloff].color1
meditMaterials[1][#Maps][#Diffuse_Color__Map__1____Falloff].color2
Thanks! Didn’t expect a reply today, so definitely appreciated
I’ve condensed the scene and it is attached.
Also getting frustrated with materials, is there a way to reference materials the same way as objects, currently I am just going through the listener and selecting it through material editor slots
so for this example I have a material named ‘mat’, I thought selecting it would be similar to selecting an object e.g $mat.diffuse = colour 1 1 1 or something.
Please also find the script below :
try (closeRolloutfloater ColourChanger) catch()
rollout ColourFall “Colour”
(
colorpicker theColor “Colour” color:[0,0,255] modal:false
on theColor changed new_col do
(
meditMaterials[1][#Maps][#Diffuse_Color__Map__2____Falloff].color1 = new_col
meditMaterials[1][#Maps][#Diffuse_Color__Map__2____Falloff].color2 = new_col
)
)
ColourChanger = newrolloutfloater “Main” 500 565
addrollout Colourfall ColourChanger
I’m multitasking watching Sri Lanka get their arses handed to them and surfing the net.
try (closeRolloutfloater ColourChanger) catch()
rollout ColourFall "Colour"
(
local col = (Random 0 255)
colorpicker theColor "Colour" color:[col,col,col] modal:false
on theColor changed new_col do
(
meditMaterials[1][#Maps][#Diffuse_Color__Map__2____Falloff].color1 = new_col
meditMaterials[1][#Maps][#Diffuse_Color__Map__2____Falloff].color2 = new_col/2
)
)
ColourChanger = newrolloutfloater "Main" 200 100
addrollout Colourfall ColourChanger
Hahah nice, yes its a nice gloomy day for watching cricket!
Thanks for that, so simple…didn’t even think of that I’ll try it out!
You can perform all sorts of maths, divide, multiply, subtract etc. Try it out along with
different numbers.
Don’t forget to (like I did) to change this number if you change things lol
[#Diffuse_Color__Map__!!!2!!!____Falloff]
If you could use the code symbol when you are posting code everyone’s life
is made much easier.
The Hash symbol above where all the text formatting stuff is just highlight your
code and click it, it will format it for you.
Ramdom 0 255
Thanks! Will do, sorry about the code quote, I’ll add that from now on
if problem = solved then
say thanks
else
beg some more