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Shader Attributes on a per particle basis


cspears2002

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I'm working on the 3d Buzz sprite rendering tutorial. I'm rendering out particles as sprites with the VEX Polka Dot shader attached to them. I want the Frequency and the Dot Color for the sprites to change on a per particle and a per frame basis. However, when I put the expression "rand($FF+$PT)*25" into the shader's Frequency parameter, I gott an error message:

Unable to evaluate expression. Undefined variable.

I played around with the expression. I think the shader parameters don't like the $PT variable. How can I get around this?

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I think the shader parameters don't like the $PT variable.

$PT is a local variable of some SOPs.

You need to create an attribute and read this in the shader using a parameterVOP.

Just like in this example: http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showto...p;hl=$LIFE

Instead of $LIFE you need to write $PT or you expression into the attribute.

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