{"id":8083,"date":"2018-02-21T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/?p=8083"},"modified":"2018-02-21T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:15:10","slug":"arnold-rendering-of-mash-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/arnold-rendering-of-mash-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold rendering of MASH | color"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8084\" style=\"width: 994px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8084\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8084\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renderingMASHColorsWithArnold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renderingMASHColorsWithArnold.jpg 984w, https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renderingMASHColorsWithArnold-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renderingMASHColorsWithArnold-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>complex procedure with fine result<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>this procedure is related to the problem of rendering Maya MASH Color node colours using Arnold. the workaround is complicated. pls don&#8217;t blame me. the tutorial where i demonstrate this is \u2192 here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a MASH network from a Polygon object. Add a Color Node, play with the colour distribution.<\/li>\n<li>Select the MASH_ReproMesh and assign a Shader of your choice, for example an Arnold Surface Shader. Set the colour to green.<\/li>\n<li>In the ReproMesh-Attributes go to the MASH_ReproMeshShape tab und under Arnold \u2192 Export activate Export Vertex Colors.<\/li>\n<li>Still in the ReproMesh Attribute editor, select the MASH_Repro tab and under \u2192 Output Attributes activate Color Per Vertex.<\/li>\n<li>Display the Attribute editor of the shader you earlier assigned to the MASH_ReproMesh. You can do this by selecting the MASH network in the scene, then right mouse click and choose Material Attributes. It\u2019s the green shader from earlier on.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the checker icon next to Color and locate the aiUserDataColor node under the Arnold Utilities. Assign that node to the colour. It replaces the green from before.<\/li>\n<li>Go to the MASH network node, select the Color tab, play with the colours \u2013 and render the scene with Arnold!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ian waters demonstrates the same procedure \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMugi0100mM\">here<\/a>. he also pointed me to this tutorial of his which has nothing to do with the MASH Color Node, however: see \u2192 <a href=\"http:\/\/ianwaters.co.uk\/wp\/mash\/colour-variation-with-the-instancer-and-arnold\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this procedure is related to the problem of rendering Maya MASH Color node colours using Arnold. the workaround is complicated. pls don&#8217;t blame me. the tutorial where i demonstrate this is \u2192 here. Create a MASH network from a Polygon object. Add a Color Node, play with the colour distribution. Select the MASH_ReproMesh and assign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2336,922],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-autodesk-maya","category-computer-und-it"],"wp-worthy-pixel":{"ignored":false,"public":null,"server":null,"url":null},"wp-worthy-type":"normal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083\/revisions\/8085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}