Coloring mesh with particle color

[Martians]

Is it possible to colorize a mesh by transferring data from colored particles of the same object?

My problem is that I can export super high res OBJ's from XDX (Xenodream 2), but it doesn't export color. I can however export a colored pointcloud. Perhaps the new attribute transfer option can do this?

[tyFlow]

You can use the Mapping operator to sample surface texmap colors and apply them to particle mapping channels. Then just apply the same texmap to both and they will match.

[shadowkiller]

I am very keen on this but i'm not quite sure i'm following all the steps. I'm getting hung up on the mapping operator part. In my setup i have particles using a mapping operator that is using a custom float to drive a gradient ramp. I would like to transfer that color to a frost mesh built around the particles.

Would you be able to post a really simple setup scene for me to study?

Thanks!

EDIT: I managed to get a result on the frost mesh but it is incorrect. The colors are completely wrong and the frost mesh doesnt seem to have its own mapping coords. I added a uvw map modifier and i see color after that, but its still all wrong. Have you managed to get frost to properly inherit colors from the vertex colors of the particles?

Edit 2: Here is a sample scene i put together. There are 2 sets of particles, red and blue. Each has their color assigned via vert colors, the new property transfer node is blending the colors. I added a frost mesher object and picked the tyflow particles to be meshed, that works/renders fine. The problem is as soon as i add my vertex color map to frost and try to render i get an error saying its missing uvw mapping. You will need frost installed to look at this of course. Any ideas?

[tyFlow]

I can't speak for Frost, but the tyMesher blobmesh mode should inherit your mapping coordinates properly if you turn on inherit UVWs.

[shadowkiller]

I just tested with the blob mesh and it works. I was hoping frost would behave the same way. Is this something you are able to look at or is this something that would be on thinkbox's side?

[tyFlow]

You'd have to ask thinkbox about it. I'm not sure what channels they inherit UVWs from.

[shadowkiller]

It appears frost is now correctly interpreting the UVW channels since you added support for saving the W channel in the prt export!

[tyFlow]

Great!