It helped me just now, thank you very much :D

Imre


On Friday, July 29, 2011 8:03:49 PM UTC+2, JP wrote:
>
> Thanks Viktoras (sorry for the delay).
>
> I just wanted to report back that there were two tricks to creating color 
> sets and setting colors on those color sets.
>
> The first is that if you have an MFnMesh with an MObject from an 
> attribute, you can't create a color set using the normal method.  Instead, 
> there is an undocumented method in the MFnMesh header file called 
> "createColorSetDataMesh(setName)".
>
> The second trick (or realization) was that you can't actually "set" a 
> color set from in the node's compute method, at least not when the 
> MFnMesh's MObject is an attribute.  Most of the setColor methods set colors 
> on the *current* color set, but setColors and assignColors both take an 
> optional color set arg.  So to set the colors for myColorSet:
>
> meshFn.setColors(MColorArray of colors in per-face, per-vertex order, 
> colorSetName)
> meshFn.assignColors(colorIndexArray)
>
> the colorIndexArray is an MIntArray of the index in the MColorArray for 
> which each vace-vert will get assigned. In other words, in this case, it 
> just an ordered list from 0-numFaceVerts.  I'm assuming this is for 
> efficiency, so that if you only were using 2 different colors on a mesh, 
> you could do (in pseudo code): 
>
> MFn.setColors(MColorArray(Color1, Color2), myColorSet)
> MFn.assignColors(indexArray(0,1,1,1,0...), myColorSet), where 
> indexArray.length() == MFn.numFaceVertices()
>
> So, hopefully that helps if someone happens to Google this later ;)
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Viktoras <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2011.07.22 18:16, John Patrick wrote:
>>
>>> MFnMesh meshFn(outMeshData.asMesh())  vs  MFnMesh 
>>> meshFn(outMeshData.asData())?
>>>
>>> Both asData() and asMesh ()return an MObject, but I'm wondering if that 
>>> MObject is pointing to different data?
>>>
>>>  you mean .data(), as in MDataHandle.data() ? That method is for 
>> retreiving handle values for custom data types, the ones you can create via 
>> MPxData.
>>
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