Urgent help with some Color-Particle-Smoke issue!

[Lud83]

Hi everyone I need some urgent help with an effect I am trying to creat.

As I already stated in a different topic, I am quite new to Houdini.

To my problem.

I want to assign color to my smoke. So far so good.

One might think as simple as using point color on billowy smoke should do (after all thats what it is supposed to do) - but turns out it is not as simple as that.

So I have found a couple of forum entries regarding how to assign color to smoke. The most interesting sollution was by David Lin (Emit smoke from texture) - I noticed it also used the same way of transfering color to the AutoDop and Import Smoke DOP.

However neither of my setups seem to work.

I will attach my files here. There are two setups:

1.SmokeColor-Issue ...using a setup assigning 2 plain constant colors as point attributes

2.SmokeTexColor-Issue ...trying to use a texture to assigne the colors to the setup

(also required files - texture, and a geometry file)

In the first case the resulting smoke is simply black. Or results in false colors.

In the second setup the resulting colors from the calculation to transfer the texture color result in plain false colors! I suspect my calculation is wrong.

So in all there are two problems I have spent days on to find a sollution but could not fix it:

1. Smoke resolving in wrong colors

2. Texture color Transfer issue

Hope someone can help me here! This issue has been driving me crazy for the last week!

thanks!

PS: don't concern yourself with the slightly overcomplicated setup of some things - Its a dirty workaround for the Import scale Issue derived from Maya..... unless that would cause all the problems?

Smoke_Color_Issue.rar