Spotlight Assembly

[Hesekiel2517]

Hey Paul,

there is a new Video about FStorm. It seems as if you can enable a directional Light option to geht more control about the lighting:
https://youtu.be/ytnBkGJp5G0?t=15m56s

You can achieve a similar Effect by adding a Falloff Node to the Distribution slot. Maybe You and Funk have an idea how to add such a functionality to the AreaLight Item:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=62903

What do you think?

[Hesekiel2517]

Hey there,

so i made a little assembly. You can Plug it in the Distribution Slot of the EmissionNode and control the Angle and the Sharpness of the emitted Light:

I'm very courious about your Opinion. I think it works very well and could be added to the AreaLight Item or could even be used to make a Spotlight item.

PS: I tried it also in the 3.07 Testversion and it results in an error. The last Stable version works fine.

[LFedit]

This assembly would be awesome!

[Hesekiel2517]

What do you mean? You can already download it in the Post above yours

[Hesekiel2517]

I had another idea to enhance the Spotlight even further. In the Screenshots you see a Gradient which controls the Pattern of the Spotlight. I want to add this to the assembly but i can't expose the Gradient to the Assembly. Is there a way to do this?

What do you think?

[Hesekiel2517]

In addition it would also be possible to mix this with Textures to get even more variation:

[face_off]

I understand that a gradient cannot be plugged into an Assembly in Modo, so what you are trying to do may not work.

Paul

[Hesekiel2517]

That's a pity.

Do you think it's worth adding this control in the Arealight item? Also is it possible to add an option to map a texture to the Area Light?

[face_off]

Do you think it's worth adding this control in the Arealight item? Also is it possible to add an option to map a texture to the Area Light?

I think you should just use the Create Octane Emitter in this case, and tweak the resulting Octane Override as needed.

Paul

[Hesekiel2517]

Mhmm, the Lightwave and Houdini Guy is considering to implement this (viewtopic.php?f=36&t=62969). Why not be the first to have this?