topic Re: Bifrost Color to Maya ColorSet in Bifrost Forum

Bifrost Color to Maya ColorSet

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:39:56 GMT

I generated a simple ramp map from point position using Bifrost. I was hoping to bake this down to a colorSet. I don't need to keep it "live". It doesn't look like bifrostGeoToMaya is passing this data. Is there a way to do it?

I tried connecting the color set, but that doesn't seem to work

Re: Bifrost Color to Maya ColorSet

Grahame_Fuller — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:48:10 GMT

Hi,

Edit > Delete by Type > History should work on the Maya mesh.

Cheers,

gray

Re: Bifrost Color to Maya ColorSet

jonah.friedman — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:36:01 GMT

It's slightly finicky, but it is possible to get Bifrost data into a colorset. There is one finicky step - the data needs to be in a property called "point_color" of type float4 (to encode RGBA).

Otherwise you can use bifrostGeoToMaya as usual, and it will create that colorset for you. That is documented here: https://help.autodesk.com/view/BIFROST/ENU/?guid=Bifrost_MayaPlugin_output_objects_to_the_scene_convert_mesh_html

Example scene is included.

Re: Bifrost Color to Maya ColorSet

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:02:20 GMT

Thank you Jonah, I was able to use your trick, thank you