Assigning different colors to mograph object based on index of clone

[helloVPV7X]

Hello, is it possible to assign different colors/textures to a linear cloner based on the index of the clone in an orderly fashion?
I've been trying to use "user_data_int" with the option "index" connected to a "switch_rgba" to define the colors, but the cloner assumes just the second color in the "switch_rgba". Am I missing something here? a node or a mograph effector? I've tried the "step effector" but no luck.

Thank you.

FC

[peter.horvath6V6K3]

Basically you have two options. One is to generate the display color of the clones inside Cinema 4D (e.g. via effectors) and read that color with the user_data_rgb shader.

The other option is to read the index with the user_data_int shader as you described. It seems to be working fine in my simple test. Could you please send me a scene if it does not work for you?

[helloVPV7X]

sure... here it goesteste 1.c4d.zip

[peter.horvath6V6K3]

The index does not work in this situation because the Cloner is inside a Boole object. The Boole has two objects, Metaball and Null, everything under the Null is exported with index 1.

I can take a look, but I'm not sure it will be easy to support this case. If you can make it work with the Display Color that would be great.

[helloVPV7X]

Well, I´ve placed the cloner out of everything else and doesn´t work either

[helloVPV7X]

here is my shader network

[peter.horvath6V6K3]

Place the Cloner out of the Boole and turn the Cube to a polygon object, then it will work. There seems to be a problem with the Cube object, as it is exported as an object generator, just like the Cloner, so it's kinda the same issue as with the Boole -> Cloner: object generator hierarchy is not managed properly.

[helloVPV7X]

thank you Peter. It's not the perfect solution but I'll try to work around it. Thanks again.

[peter.horvath6V6K3]

Here's a modified version of your scene using a Step effector and the Display Color.

teste 1 v02.zip

The tricky bit is that C4D splits the color in sRGB color space, while Arnold uses linear color space, so you need a gamma correction. Then multiply by the number of clones and round to get the index.

Hope it helps.

[peter.horvath6V6K3]

I added a fix to the latest release, C4DtoA 3.0.1.2, which makes your scene work when cloning a polygon object. Unfortunately the indexes are not set properly when cloning a primitive object (e.g. Cube, Sphere, etc) which is under a Boole or Subdivision Surface. This is a limitation in Cinema 4D, confirmed by Maxon.

[hello.ipiv]

GPU mode and clone indexing issue:

In a case where rendering mode is set to GPU and using Mograph cloner to clone Arnold Volumes there seems to be an issue with clone indexing - Object IDs and Clone indexes are all resolving to 0/default value.

The issue above does not appear when switching to CPU mode.

Edit: Utility node set to Object mode or User data node with attribute set to index are outputting different IDs to clones but there doesn't seem to be a way to utilize that output. It looks like the output gets reset to 0 whenever it is outputting to any port on Standard volume node

[peter.horvath6V6K3]

Thanks for reporting. Seems to be a bug with user_data shaders and volumes on the GPU. We're looking into it.