Nevermind, I don’t think my last request is very necessary. Setting the graphics driver Texel lookup to “Nearest” seemed to be good enough.
Another thing I’m interested in…mainly directed at Bobo I guess:
Is it possible to set the viewport graphics window to a bitmap. I can get the viewport with gw.getViewportDib() but is there a way to set it? (I don’t mean the viewport backround but the actual graphics window.) If not with maxscript, what other way could it be done?
CML
hi guys
i did the particle scale from map.i know i’m late, but i had to finish somework first
here’s the result
here’s the map used to guide particle scale
the particles…
the code of the script operator…
–this code assumes the scale map is rendered to a bmp file using RenderMap
on ChannelsUsed pCont do
(
pCont.usePosition = true
pCont.useScale = true
pCont.useSpeed = true
)
on Init pCont do
(
global mapchannel = 5 – revise this
global bottle = $Box09test – revise this
global bmpfile = openBitmap “C:\7up.bmp” –revise this
global xfactor = bmpfile.width
global yfactor = bmpfile.height
)
on Proceed pCont do
(
count = pcont.numParticles()
for i in 1 to count do
(
pcont.particleIndex=i
if (pcont.particleAge==0) do
(
pvel = pcont.particleSpeed
pos = pcont.particlePosition + pvel
pray = ray pos -pvel
arr = intersectRayEx bottle pray
if(arr != undefined) then
(
tf = meshop.getmapface bottle mapchannel arr[2]
tv1= meshop.getmapvert bottle mapchannel tf.x
tv2= meshop.getmapvert bottle mapchannel tf.y
tv3= meshop.getmapvert bottle mapchannel tf.z
tv = tv1*arr[3].x + tv2*arr[3].y + tv3*arr[3].z
if(tv.x >1)then
(
tv.x = tv.x-1
)
else if(tv.x<0)then
(
tv.x = tv.x+1
)
if(tv.y >1)then
(
tv.y = tv.y-1
)
else if(tv.y<0)then
(
tv.y = tv.y+1
)
co=getpixels bmpfile [tv.x*xfactor,(1-tv.y)*yfactor] 1
pcont.particlescale = (co[1].r/255)+0.2
--print "done"
--print pvel as string
)
else
(
--print ((pcont.particlePosition as string) +"and" + (pos as string))
--print "left"
)
)
)
)
on Release pCont do
(
close bmpfile
)
and finally a blobmesh with the particle system as the blobobject
the code is much inspired by or a modeification of Bobo’s Inherit Texel Color From Emitter
the modifications are based on the above explanations (also from Bobo :))
if there’s anything wrong in the code, please tell
thanks a lot guys, you helped me do this (specially BOBO) :):)