Getting meshColour C#

Hi,

I'm trying to make a component in C# through visual studio. The idea is that I want to be able to import a coloured mesh, and use the colour value at any point on the mesh. I have made a little method that should be able to find the colour for the closest meshPoint for a point.

public

double GetBrightness()

{

Color tempColor = mesh.ColorAt(mesh.ClosestMeshPoint(point));

return tempColor.GetBrightness();

}

I plug in a mesh that I have sprayed beforehand. But when I try to get the output from the method all brightness-values are just 1.0, even though this is not the case. Anyone who knows what I might be doing wrong? (The ClosestMeshPoint Method works just fine btw)

hope you can help

Timo

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 22, 2013 at 8:02am

I think I wrote the Mesh.ColorAt() function. There could be a bug in there but I'll need some time to figure that out as I'm up to my neck in meetings at the moment.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 22, 2013 at 8:06am

Actually the [Mesh Eval] component also doesn't return a colour so I think whatever the bug is, it's my fault not yours. I'll see if I have some time today to narrow it down, but it may take a few days.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by Timo Harboe Nielsen on October 22, 2013 at 8:19am

Hi David. Thanks a lot for your quick reply.

I'm looking forwar to hear more from you regarding this. When have a mesh-input and I plug in a painted mesh, will the color values then be transfered with the mesh?

I'm just thinking that if this is the case I will be able to program my own component that can calculate a color value anywhere on the mesh from barycentric coordinates. I would like to be able to avoid having a color input parameter in my component, and just store the color information in the mesh.

Permalink Reply by Vangel Kukov on May 17, 2014 at 8:21am