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Mograph Multishader Index Ratio Problem
So I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding something about the way the multishader works.
I put a cube in a cloner with a count of ten. I select the cloner and add a shader effector. I load a mograph multishader into the shader’s shading channel, and load some colors into the multiple channels of the multishader – r,g,b. Now all my clones take on the first channel of the multishader. If I move the multishader channels up and down the colors on my clones change accordingly. But when I switch the multishader mode to index ratio nothing happens, all the clones remain the same color, whichever is the top most shader channel. Furthermore, if I use color brightness and change the cloner’s transform – color – option, the color brightness does nothing to effect which multishader channel is applied to the clones.
Am I missing something here? I’ve followed along with multiple multishader tutorials but my setup’s never seem to respond to any of the controlled or index’ed multishader mappings.
Any help is much appreciated!
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Can you give some more information about what it is you’re trying to achieve?
The shader effector is only capable of changing the internal color value of the clones. The multishader is capable of reading the internal color value or index ratio of clones and choosing a corresponding texture based on that value.
You generally wouldn’t want to try to modify the internal color of the clones with a shader that varies depending on the internal color of those clones… unexpected results are to be expected 🙂
Darby Edelen
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Ah, I was just trying to do a test to see if I understood the multi shader, but it sounds like I was using it in a poor way. I’ll watch some more tut’s. Thanks for the tip!
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