MultiPipe gradient

[evanowa]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to assign gradient to my MultiPipe path but so far I didn’t succeed. What I want to do is to change the pipe’s colour depending on it’s position in Z axis.
I would really appreciate your help how to tackle this. Thanks!

[inno]

this might be one way

[evanowa]

This is amazing!! Thank you so much

[evanowa]

Hey Inno,

I hope you don’t mind me asking but do you know by any chance how can I add material (reflection, metallic effect) to this gradient mesh?

[evanowa]

when I add custom preview (first photo) the material looks the same no matter which one I choose.
The biggest difference (closest to the desired one) is when I switch preview on of “Mesh from SubD” (photo 2) but for not known reason to me it’s of a red color and I am not sure how to change it

[inno]

you can bake the mesh in Rhino and it will retain vertex color in the viewports (although you might want it to be more subdivided, maybe through Weavebird) but as far as I know there’s no way in Rhino -at the moment- to combine mesh vertex colors with other materials

this shows you how to enable Cycles mesh vertex color material:

Raytracing meshes with vertex colors

Raytracing vertex colors is possible. The vertex color material is currently still a hidden one so you need to run first once the command TestShowPrivateContent. You should find the Cycles vertex color material now as an option to create when making a new material. Assign that to your object. [image] [image] All meshes are triangulated. You probably need to explain with images how you think blending should be better.

maybe rendering it as purely metallic then rendering purely vertex colors and then somehow combining them in photoshop or similar?

[evanowa]

I baked the mesh as recommended, applied material in Rhino and the gradient colors revealed couldn’t be happier with the effect! Thank you so so much