How to key R,G,B of diffuse Mat

Submitted by JokerMartini on Tue, 2011-05-03 09:51

How do I get the controller property of the diffuse material on the selected object.

I know the simple solution here would be to just do a value change with Animate On but that can be buggy and I don't like doing that.

selfIll = $.material.diffuse.r.controller
newKey = addNewKey selfIll 10 #select
newKey.value = 10
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Submitted by JokerMartini on Tue, 2011-05-03 14:12.

I'm trying to make it more streamline

How can I access those key values without hard coding that particular key.

cRGB = Color_RGB()
$.mat.diffuse.controller = cRGB
 
addNewKey cRGB sliderTime #select
theSubCtrls = getXYZControllers cRGB
newKey = selectKeys theSubCtrls slidertime
print newKey
newKey[1].value = 0 --r
newKey[2].value = 1 --g 
newKey[3].value = 0 --b

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Submitted by JokerMartini on Tue, 2011-05-03 14:31.

slowly getting closer I believe.

cRGB = Color_RGB()
$.mat.diffuse.controller = cRGB
ctrlRGB = $.mat.diffuse.controller
ctrlRGB.r = (random 0 255)
ctrlRGB.g = (random 0 255)
ctrlRGB.b = (random 0 255)

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Digital Artist
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Submitted by Anubis on Tue, 2011-05-03 15:49.

Hmm...

you asked for workaround with addNewKey()
but going with "ctrlRGB.r = (random 0 255)"
you back to the "animate on" method --
with animate on at time sliderTime ctrlRGB.r = (random 0 255)
..but if works well, why not? :)

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Submitted by Anubis on Tue, 2011-05-03 11:35.

try this

cRGB = Color_RGB()
$.mat.diffuse.controller = cRGB
 
addNewKey cRGB 10 #select -- OK
addNewKey cRGB 20 #select -- OK
 
theSubCtrls = getXYZControllers cRGB --------------
theSubCtrls[1].keys[1].value = 10./255 -- 0.0392157
theSubCtrls[1].keys[2].value = 255./255 -- 1.0

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Submitted by JokerMartini on Tue, 2011-05-03 12:14.

Great

That works great. Thanks Anubis,
I had tried several different ideas and none of them seemed to work.
Your solution how ever is just what i needed.
Thanks

John Martini
Digital Artist
http://www.JokerMartini.com (new site)

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