Defining Light color by wavelength?

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Luxor
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Joined: Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:28 am

Hello Octane users & developers!

I've got spectral data for various gas-discharge lamps, and would like to put it to use in my project. Does Octane allow user-defined spectra for its lights? In other words, entering a set of wavelengths and their emission power?

The manual mentions Gaussian spectrum emission, but this is limited to a single wavelength and curve width.

If it's not available, are there any future plans for this feature?

Thanks!

P.S. Blender user here, tempted by Octane's amazing rendering speed.
Veronique
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Joined: Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:27 am

Hi all,

No answer here?
What a pity , I would have been definitely interested!

Véronique.
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bepeg4d
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hi,
i'm not an expert in this field, but you can use a spectral wavelength in the texture/efficiency pin, and you can use a mix texture node for mixing two different wavelength with a falloff node in the amount, for example.
so the answer is yes but you need to define a multy node relation between all the different wavelength that you want to pass to the efficiency channel of a texture emission, i think ;)
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