Mesh Light

[cdavis]

I have a polyplane as a mesh light & its rigged up so it can be deformed for our needs & it works fine. But I want to add ramps to the edges to control the opacity, so that if a get a bit of crossover on my lights I can dial in this opacity to blend together.

I seem to be having the problem that I want the light intensity attribute to control the light intensity but I need a texture slot to control opacity . The only way I can get this is the texture tab , but this is just a texture overriding the light intensity.

And any shader i put on the mesh light is overridden by the mesh light.

Is there any way to achieve this?

Thanks

Chris

[vlado]

You can attach the alpha output of your opacity map to the Alpha Gain parameter of the light color texture. This will only change the transparency though; it will not automatically multiply the intensity by the opacity.

Best regards,
Vlado