bakeTexture SurfaceColor(cf)

[ruchitinfushion]

Hi,

In Houdini 16 how to bake surface color from vop material ??

 

See below images for mantra & bake texture node output.

 

Edited October 6, 2017 by ruchitinfushion

[davpe]

don't bake Cf. pipe surface color into arbitrary channel and render that as a custom image plane. predefined channels never work for me when baking (or maybe i just did not understood how it's supposed to be used)

[ruchitinfushion]

I can already render the "cf" from mantra without the need to add any custom image planes. what i want next is to export the "cf" data into texture map so that i could use as emission map to emit either particles or fluids.

Thank you

 

[davpe]

use baketexture ROP then

[ruchitinfushion]

This is what i asked in first post, Mantra render proper but baketexture ROP gives flat white color. 

Please check my scene file 

dissolveToy.hip

[ruchitinfushion]

it was bug in older build..working fine in 16.0.736...One more question, is there any direct way to import/export material shader builder data in SOp ??

[davpe]

unfortunately there is no straightforward way. you would have to build it again in SOPs or render the texture and use it as a source for point colors. theoretically you can copy an paste nodes from mat net to VOP SOP but that generaly doesn' t work well. shame .-/ other way around - from SOP to shader it's very easy thou just by reading geometry attributes.