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Repeating color pattern on objects
I have a row of 500 small cubes. They need to have a repeating color pattern, and this pattern may change for different purposes. So I am looking for an efficient way to apply the different colored materials to these cubes. For instance, suppose the repeating pattern is red, green, blue, yellow, blue, yellow, red, red, green, yellow, and blue. The color pattern then repeats again, starting with red, green, blue, yellow, etc. This needs to be a repeating color pattern over all the 500 cubes. Now I could apply the materials to the separate objects one-by-one, but that would take some time. And when the color pattern changes, I would have to do it all over again.
So, any suggestions on how to approach this?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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I presume there
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Simple solution: MoGraph. Not so simple solution: planar projected images across all 500 cubes. Tedious solution: Apply the material tags to the top level of grouped rows.
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Thanks Nolan. This is a very interesting solution. I’ll give it a try.
I was also looking at using the Bitmap node (Xpresso), but have
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I’m such a newbie I can’t believe I’m even going to suggest something but what about grouping 10 cubes (in your pattern example there were 11 colors but I’m taking one out for explanation) and then just placing instances of that original grouping? In one fell swoop you can add 50 instances which would all repeat along the x axis.
Then you could just change the original 10 when needed.
Ok..slowly backing out of the room..
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[thumbslinger] “I’m such a newbie I can’t believe I’m even going to suggest something but what about grouping 10 cubes (in your pattern example there were 11 colors but I’m taking one out for explanation) and then just placing instances of that original grouping? In one fell swoop you can add 50 instances which would all repeat along the x axis.
Then you could just change the original 10 when needed.
Ok..slowly backing out of the room..”
Yepp, I believe I was suggesting this just not with your clear words. The disadvantage is, though, that you need to start over anew i you want to change your colors, so I’d perhaps still prefer the texture trick (when not having MoGraph) – it would be easier to replace or animate the texture rather than re-arranging your cubes.
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Wow, thanks for all the great solutions. Looks like I got my work cut out for me this weekend.
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