Colour Shading a Mesh

Hi guys,

Would you know how to shade an existing mesh according to height values ?

thanks,

Arthur

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on February 15, 2010 at 5:26am

You'll have to decompose the mesh and take a look at the verticies...then reconstruct...

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on February 15, 2010 at 5:46am

Great! Thanks Luis.
Would you use Giulio's definition for baking the gradient?

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on February 15, 2010 at 5:58am

sorry i remembered that you told me about mode tool already, i ll try that.

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on February 15, 2010 at 6:00am

the mesh should directly bake with the color info...no special baking required...to render you will need a renderer which supports per vertex shading.

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on February 15, 2010 at 7:48am

That s cool, thanks ! Both maxwell and rhino render couldn't make it unfortunately,
any idea which render could take the colour into account?

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on February 15, 2010 at 8:41am

have you tried brazil or flamengo? vray will not...I do not have flamengo or brazil though...

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on July 26, 2010 at 2:52am

Hi Luis, is it possible to do the same operation with a surface or only with a mesh?

Permalink Reply by to] on July 26, 2010 at 3:08am

surfaces have no vertices to save the colorinformation

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on July 26, 2010 at 3:29am

cheers to] i ll stick to mesh then.
I tried to render the baked mesh with the rhino render but it ignores the gradient texture. Is there an option to render the mesh texture?

Permalink Reply by to] on July 26, 2010 at 3:53am

as luis said above maybe brazil or flamingo... never tried this plugins, i use 3dsmax and there it is possible
with the standard rhino render it is not possible,....sorry

hope you have a great time in telaviv

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on July 26, 2010 at 4:02am

Thanks To]!
It started yesterday.
Had the hope that you could extract the texture (using it for rapid prototyping too not just rendering).

Permalink Reply by to] on July 26, 2010 at 4:04am

could you explain what you want to achieve?
you want to use the color or texture for rapid prototyping?
but you have already the values which you used for coloring the mesh?