Creating area light with a texture using point/spot lights

[Farsheed Ashouri]

Hi again. I wrote a MEL script few years ago that creates point/spot light based on a texture on a surface.

Here is that mel script:

sLight.mel.zip

And some screenshots:

How can I do this in houdini? I tried to scatter point lights on a grid but I couldn't. The main point is how can I gather RGB information of the texture or custom image on a nurbs surface and assign it to a nearest light.

what I want is a fake HDRI tool.

Thank you in advanced.

Edited August 20, 2009 by Farsheed Ashouri

[sanostol]

You can not scatter lights but You can instanciate lights to points and they can pick up for example color of the points with a expression

Hi again. I wrote a MEL script few years ago that creates point/spot light based on a texture on a surface.

Here is that mel script:

sLight.mel.zip

And some screenshots:

How can I do this in houdini? I tried to scatter point lights on a grid but I couldn't. The main point is how can I gather RGB information of the texture or custom image on a nurbs surface and assign it to a nearest light.

what I want is a fake HDRI tool.

Thank you in advanced.

[Ole]

Hi again. I wrote a MEL script few years ago that creates point/spot light based on a texture on a surface.

Here is that mel script:

sLight.mel.zip

And some screenshots:

How can I do this in houdini? I tried to scatter point lights on a grid but I couldn't. The main point is how can I gather RGB information of the texture or custom image on a nurbs surface and assign it to a nearest light.

what I want is a fake HDRI tool.

Thank you in advanced.

I've made a light rig setup HDA a while ago. Check it out: Light Rig One