clone shader doesn't work ....

[3dkobi]

Hi,

Here's a scene I'm working on, I have 3 different kind of trees, and I'm trying to use the clone shader, but as you can see, the color of the leaves doesn't change.

what am I doing wrong ?

Peace,
Kobi

[3dkobi]

Anyone ?

[rhodesy]

Did you use surface spread to place the trees - I think it only works when you use it with surface spread clones but i could be wrong.

[3dkobi]

Actually no, because as you can see the trees have to be in specific places...

I hope you're wrong....

Peace,
Kobi

[c4d-Jack]

He's not wrong. The shader evaluates data generated by the SurfaceSPREAD object. Therefore, it won't do anything if the objects/clones were not created with SurfaceSPREAD and therefore do not contain any of that data ;-)

A workaround would be to create the clones with SurfaceSPREAD and then convert the SurfaceSPREAD object with "c". You can then freely move the generated clones. And the clones still contain the data generated by the SurfaceSPREAD object.

Cheers,
Jack

[3dkobi]

Thanks Jack, this workaround sounds a great option :)

Peace,
Kobi