Ramp texture

[clintonman]

Ramp texture for truespace. Image shows result from 3dbuzz maya fundamentals project 2, the beach ball object.
Both ramps are set for no interpolation and one ramp feeds the other as a texture.

Press init to start out with 2 keys of white for key 0 at position 0 and black for key 1 at position 0.1.
The current color is selected with the previous and next buttons. They cycle through the keys in the order they are created, not their position on the ramp.
To add a new key click in the ramp then change the color with the current color input and the position with the slider. Keys can be added in any order but it's easier next and previous buttons if the keys are added bottom to top or left to right.

Interpolation of 0 means hard lines, no interpolation. 1 means linear interpolation
Type 0 creates a vertical ramp, type 1 is horizontal.

To assign an image to a key press the add texture button, the area of the key will be filled with noise. Switch to the Exp tab to assign the actual texture to be used. When the ramp type is set to 1/horizontal the image will be reversed left for right. Hmm, seems a little broken not working for the last key.
The remove a texture press the remove texture button.

There is no way to remove a key yet.
Don't use the CurrentKey number input, it only works with the previous and next buttons.

[clintonman]

Alien eye made with ramp and voronoi texture. Same 3dbuzz project.

[trueBlue]

Awesome Clinton!
Are you able to do something like this?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... ymwKkyeEcZ

[Finis]

Good feature for trueSpace! Color ramps are awesome. Blender people use them for an amazing variety of effects. I used a color ramp in Blender to color the ornament particles on the Christmas tree (https://www.united3dartists.com/forum/v ... 999#p56999). Outside the environment background of stars is a noise texture sent through a color ramp.

[MikomDude]

Ohh, yeah ramps are super useful! Couldn't make a material in Blender without one.

[clintonman]

Awesome Clinton!
Are you able to do something like this?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... ymwKkyeEcZ

I don't think so except maybe to make a uv planar projection in the second uv channel and use it in place of the projection node he uses in the video.

[trueBlue]

Wanting to add your Ramp material to the updates.
Does this UI make sense?

[clintonman]

Wanting to add your Ramp material to the updates.
Does this UI make sense?
RampUI.PNG

I'll have to get back to you. For now I think Position isn't used, but I'm not sure.
Initiate should be Initialize or Reset
The Next and Previous buttons should be closer to the ramp than the Add and Remove texture buttons. Or maybe Add/Remove should be closer to the color since it replaces the color.
I plan to replace Interpolation and Type with drop down lists
Also plan to add key position indicators.

[trueBlue]

Okay, I'll wait until your finished.

I like the Vertical or Horizontal Combo Control idea!
Wonder though if it should be two different materials?
One for Horizontal and one for Vertical.

Looking at your Ball.RsObj, I'm guessing that it should be a Component verses a Material?

With your Ball.RsObj, I was getting an error from the data script.
Something about the newkey being undifined:

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	var curkey = CurrentKey;
	if(curkey < 9) {
		curkey = "0" + curkey ;
	} else {
		curkey = "" + newkey;
	}

If I remember correctly, I just clicked on the ramp bitmap control.

[clintonman]

That reminds me, it's also probably limited to adding less than 10 keys and there's no way to delete keys.