Experimental:Texture Map POP

Summary

The Texture Map POP creates the Tex attribute which is used to apply texture maps to surfaces, or to position procedurally-generated textures to surfaces.

The Tex attribute is a float3 3-component attribute. It can appear as a point attribute or a vertex attribute. It is created by all the generator POPs like the Grid POP, Sphere POP, Rectangle POP, Box POP etc., but Tex can also created with the Texture Map POP.

There are various projection methods, each useful depending on the type of geometry it is being applied to and its use-case.

Equirectangular Inside and Outside is a spherical polar longitude/latitude mapping used on vertices, used in VR, either to be viewed from the inside of a sphere or outside.

Domes require the mapping type Equidistant Azimuth, a fish eye projection. Projection mapping uses perspective from camera simulating what is "seen" from the position of a projector.

Triplanar Coordinates is a type that generates 3 sets of texture coordinates (3 attributes) used to map 1 texture onto an object but is a blend of 3 orthographic projections onto 3 sides of an object.

There is nothing special about the Tex attribute - any attribute can be used by a Material. The Normalize POP and the Projection POP produce attributes that can be used with a material, like doing orhtographic scaled projections, or spherical/cylindrical projections.

Some materials require multiple texture coordinates, which can be created with any of these methods in creating Tex2, Tex3, etc. and provided to the materials.

Note: In SOPs this was similar to the use of the uvw attribute for texture coordinates.

See also PBR MAT, Phong MAT, Normalize POP and the Projection POP

texturemapPOP_Class

Parameters - Texture Page

Primitive Group group -

Transform Input Texture Coord transforminput -

Input Texture Coord Attribute inputtexattr -

Texture Type type - ⊞ -

• XYZ Normalized (Point) xyznorm -

• XYZ Position (Point) xyzposition -

• Cylindrical (Vertex) cylin -

• Face (Vertex) face -

• Equirectangular Inside (Spherical Polar) (Vertex) equirectangularin -

• Equirectangular Outside (Spherical Polar) (Vertex) equirectangularout -

• Equidistant Azimuth (Fish Eye) (Point) equiazimuth -

• Perspective From Camera (Point) persp -

• Triplanar Coordinates (Point) triplanar -

Position Attribute posattr -

Projection Axis axis - ⊞ -

• X Axis x -

• Y Axis y -

• Z Axis z -

FOV Angle fov -

Camera camera -

Camera Aspect cameraaspect - ⊞ -

• Camera Aspect cameraaspectx -

• Camera Aspect cameraaspecty -

Apply to applyto - ⊞ -

• Natural location natural -

• Point texture point -

• Vertex texture (fix seams) vertex -

Scale s - ⊞ -

• Scale su -

• Scale sv -

• Scale sw -

Offset offset - ⊞ -

• Offset offsetu -

• Offset offsetv -

• Offset offsetw -

Rotate angle -

Fix Face Seams fixseams -

Output Attribute Scope outputattrscope - ⊞ -

• P P -

• N N -

• Color Color -

• Color.i012 Color.i012 -

• Tex Tex -

• PointScale PointScale -

• LineWidth LineWidth -

Override Automatic Attribute overrideautoattr -

New Attribute Type newattrtype - ⊞ -

• float float -

• double double -

• int int -

• uint uint -

• dir dir -

• dbl dir ddir -

New Attribute Number of Components attrnumcomps - ⊞ -

• 1 1 -

• 2 2 -

• 3 3 -

• 4 4 -

New Attribute Default Value newattrdefaultval - ⊞ -

• New Attribute Default Value newattrdefaultval1 -

• New Attribute Default Value newattrdefaultval2 -

• New Attribute Default Value newattrdefaultval3 -

• New Attribute Default Value newattrdefaultval4 -

Parameters - Transform Page

Transform Order xord - ⊞ -

• Scale Rotate Translate srt -

• Scale Translate Rotate str -

• Rotate Scale Translate rst -

• Rotate Translate Scale rts -

• Translate Scale Rotate tsr -

• Translate Rotate Scale trs -

Rotate Order rord - ⊞ -

• Rx Ry Rz xyz -

• Rx Rz Ry xzy -

• Ry Rx Rz yxz -

• Ry Rz Rx yzx -

• Rz Rx Ry zxy -

• Rz Ry Rx zyx -

Translate t - ⊞ -

• Translate tx -

• Translate ty -

• Translate tz -

Rotate r - ⊞ -

• Rotate rx -

• Rotate ry -

• Rotate rz -

Scale scaletwo - ⊞ -

• Scale scaletwox -

• Scale scaletwoy -

• Scale scaletwoz -

Pivot p - ⊞ -

• Pivot px -

• Pivot py -

• Pivot pz -

Parameters - Common Page

Bypass bypass -

Delete Input Attributes delinputattrs -

Parameter Color Space parmcolorspace - ⊞ - Controls how all color parameters on this node are interpreted. The color values as treated as being in the selected color space, and are converted to the Working Color Space before they are used as part of the node's operation. Note that this does not change the color space of the node itself, as that is always in the Working Color Space.

• sRGB srgb - sRGB color space, with sRGB transfer function. Considered an SDR color space with respect to Reference White.

• sRGB - Linear srgblinear - sRGB color space, with linear transfer function. Considered an SDR color space with respect to Reference White.

• Rec.601 (NTSC) rec601ntsc - Rec.601 with NTSC primaries color space, with Rec.601 transfer function. Considered an SDR color space with respect to Reference White.

• Rec.709 rec709 - Rec.709 color space, with Rec.709 (same as Rec.2020) transfer function. Considered an SDR color space with respect to Reference White.

• Rec.2020 rec2020 - Rec.2020 color space, with Rec.2020 (same as Rec.709) transfer function. Considered an HDR color space with respect to Reference White.

• DCI-P3 dcip3 - DCI-P3 color space, with D65 white point and 2.6 gamma transfer function. Considered an HDR color space with respect to Reference White.

• DCI-P3 (D60) dcip3d60 - DCI-P3 "D60 sim" color space, with D60 white point, and 2.6 gamma transfer function. Considered an HDR color space with respect to Reference White.

• Display-P3 (D65) displayp3d65 - Display-P3 color space, with D65 white point, and sRGB gamma transfer function. Considered an HDR color space with respect to Reference White.

• ACES2065-1 aces2065-1 - ACES 2065-1 (also known as ACES AP0) color space, with a linear gamma transfer function. Considered an HDR color space with respect to Reference White.

• ACEScg acescg - ACEScg (also known as ACES AP1) color space, with a linear gamma transfer function. Considered an HDR color space with respect to Reference White.

• Passthrough passthrough - When selected, the color values will be used as-is in the operation, without any modification or attempt to convert them into the Working Color Space.

Parameter Reference White parmreferencewhite - ⊞ - When converting a parameter color value to the Working Color Space, this controls how it should be treated with respect to Reference White. If the Working Color Space is the same Reference White, then no adjustment is done. If they are different, then the Reference White level (brightness) of this color will be adjusted to the range expected by the Working Color Space. For example if the project is set to have a SDR Reference White of 120 nits, and the HDR Reference White is 80 nits, then a color of (1, 1, 1), which is 120 nits in the SDR color space, will be converted to be (1.5, 1.5, 1.5), which is 120 nits still in the HDR Working Color Space.

• Default For Color Space default - Will use either the SDR or the HDR Reference White, based on the color space selected.

• Standard (SDR) sdr - Will treat the Parameter Color Space as SDR for it's reference white value.

• High (HDR) hdr - Will treat the Parameter Color Space as HDR for it's reference white value.

Operator Inputs

• Input 0: -

Info CHOP Channels

Extra Information for the Texture Map POP can be accessed via an Info CHOP.

Common Operator Info Channels

• total_cooks - Number of times the operator has cooked since the process started.

• cook_time - Duration of the last cook in milliseconds.

• cook_frame - Frame number when this operator was last cooked relative to the component timeline.

• cook_abs_frame - Frame number when this operator was last cooked relative to the absolute time.

• cook_start_time - Time in milliseconds at which the operator started cooking in the frame it was cooked.

• cook_end_time - Time in milliseconds at which the operator finished cooking in the frame it was cooked.

• cooked_this_frame - 1 if operator was cooked this frame.

• warnings - Number of warnings in this operator if any.

• errors - Number of errors in this operator if any.

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MATs or Materials are an Operator Family that applies a Shader to a SOP or 3D Geometry Object for rendering textured surfaces with lighting.

A surface type in SOPs that includes polygon, curve (NURBS and Bezier), patch (NURBS and Bezier) and other basic shapes like sphere, tube and metaball. Points and Primitives are part of the Geometry Detail, which is a part of a SOP.

Each SOP has a list of Points. Each point has an XYZ 3D position value plus other optional attributes. Each polygon Primitive is defined by a vertex list, which is list of point numbers.

A sequence of vertices form a Polygon in a SOP. Each vertex is an integer index into the Point List, and each Point holds an XYZ position and attributes like Normals and Texture Coordinates.

A parameter in most CHOPs that restricts which channels of that CHOP will be affected. Normally all channels of a CHOP are affected by the operator. TOPs have Channel Mask, a similar feature.

An operator whose Bypass flag is set does nothing: All data going into its first input appears at its output unaffected.

Information associated with SOP geometry. Points and primitives (polygons, NURBS, etc.) can have any number of attributes - position (P) is standard, and built-in optional attributes are normals (N), texture coordinates (uv), color (Cd), etc.

A Link. The grey dashed lines between nodes is a Reference or Link that indicates one operator is getting data from another operator from any Operator Family.

The grey dashed lines between nodes is a Reference (or Link). A Reference is (1) a Parameter Reference, a parameter in an OP that is a name or path to another operator, (2) a Node Reference, an expression in a parameter or DAT script that contains the name or path of another operator, (3) a DAT Cell Reference or (4) a CHOP Channel Reference.

A Link or Reference is a dashed line between nodes that represent other data flowing between nodes. Examples are CHOP Exports, node Paths in parameters, and expressions in parameters referencing CHOP channels, DAT tables and other nodes. In contrast is a Wire that connects nodes in the same Operator Family.

A parameter reference can be setup between any two parameters by putting an expression in one parameter that refers to another parameter. This creates a Link between the two parameters such that when one changes, the other will change automatically (known in other software as a "constraint").

An Operator Family which operate on Channels (a sequence of numbers (Samples)) which are used for animation, audio, mathematics, simulation, logic, UI construction, and data streamed from/to devices and protocols.