transferring color from texture onto points

[ranxerox]

hey all, I have a textured model, and some points which track on the surface of the model. I would like to transfer the color from the texture on this model onto these points (so that the particles emanating from them can inherit color). I am using attribpromote to promote the uvs from vertex attributes to point attributes, then using an attribute transfer SOP to transfer the uvs to the points. Then I create a Cd for the dest points and my plan was to make a VOPSOP to texture the points based on these uvs and the same texture as the model. I am kind of stuck because I can't find a VOP to load a 2d texture (so that I can look up the color based on the uvs of the current point).

question: Is this the right way to go, and if so, what VOP can I use to load the file texture in the VOPSOP ?

thanks in advance.

-ranxx

[ranxerox]

oops, just found it, 'colormap' VOP is what I was looking for. Thanks.

-ranxx

hey all, I have a textured model, and some points which track on the surface of the model. I would like to transfer the color from the texture on this model onto these points (so that the particles emanating from them can inherit color). I am using attribpromote to promote the uvs from vertex attributes to point attributes, then using an attribute transfer SOP to transfer the uvs to the points. Then I create a Cd for the dest points and my plan was to make a VOPSOP to texture the points based on these uvs and the same texture as the model. I am kind of stuck because I can't find a VOP to load a 2d texture (so that I can look up the color based on the uvs of the current point).

question: Is this the right way to go, and if so, what VOP can I use to load the file texture in the VOPSOP ?

thanks in advance.

-ranxx