Sorry, got the wrong end of the stick. My hacky way would be to create a slightly larger secondary mesh and unhide/hide visibility, if you're just talking for use in captures.
On 2 December 2013 22:07, Alan Fregtman <[email protected]> wrote: > It's for some vehicles. The animators wanna do test renders and they want > the lights to respond to their animated sliders. The lights in this case > not being actual lights but meshes of lights. > > We want to color them so you can see them flashing or whatever. There are > many many shots. It can't be something to set up for one pass per scene. It > needs to be portable, in the rig. > > ICE seems the easiest way, but I'd say it's cumbersome. Got a better idea? > > > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Why do you need to color the meshes? Eg; what role/purpose does the >> coloring serve? That’ll narrow down the response for implementation. >> >> >> >> If you’re using ref models, consider passes and partitions with parameter >> overrides on the shaders. That’ll allow you to isolate copies of the ref >> models without having to do any destructive editing. >> >> >> >> >> >> Matt >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Alan Fregtman >> *Sent:* Monday, December 02, 2013 1:20 PM >> *To:* XSI Mailing List >> *Subject:* Best way to animate shaders for use in a refmodel? >> >> >> >> Hey guys, >> >> >> >> I'm aiming to animate the coloring of some meshes and the animators may >> load one or more of this model as a reference. >> >> >> >> I don't wanna do expressions on materials as that breaks easily, so I've >> gone with ICE controlling vertexcolors and reading that in the shader. It >> works but it's cumbersome to set up. >> >> >> >> Is there a better way? Anyone know a different trick? I just want to hook >> up a parameter to switch between two colors and have it local for the mesh >> for the model and still work if there are multiples of that same model. >> >> >> >> Any tips appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> -- Alan >> >> >> > > -- www.matinai.com
