Can I assign a bitmap to a material with out saving the image?

[Holo]

Hi @dale or whom it may concern.
Is it possible to assign a processed bitmap to a material without having to save the bitmap to a file first?
I would like to height analyze a mesh, generate a bitmap and assign it to the mesh with out having to save the image. (Kind of what Pasting an image into Rhino from the clipboard does)

Cheers.

[dale (Dale Fugier)]

@nathanletwory - is this something you can help with?

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

Let me search the old memory bitmap texture example I have somewhere. Posted I think twice to this forum.

edit: fun fact, you asked this before and I answered:

Possible define an image and assign to a material?

Hi guys, is it possible for me to define an image (from scratch, pixle by pixle) and assign that as a texture to a material? I was thinking in the same way an image file can be embedded into Rhino that maybe we could have “virtual” image files too. I would need this to make a “terrain shader” and I would prefer not to generate a png/bmp/jpeg and save it next to the Rhino file. Thanks!

[Holo]

@nathanletwory

edit: fun fact, you asked this before and I answered:

I blame that on me having covid right now! (But the truth is that I forget, and I had totally forgotten sbout the memory bitmap part as I there and later used the save bitmap to file approach!)

Thanks, I’ll see if this is less complex to understand now!

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

@Holo

having covid right

in that case you should be resting! Get better soon

[Holo]

I am, thus the long response time
Thanks though!