Quote - Sigh, I just got done typing an excrutiatingly detailed reply for 45 minutes, then when I posted it Renderosity said "Error - No Global Variables" and my post was GONE.

So you get the short version instead.

I really think this script is a bit too complicated to be used as a learning tool for you. You're trying to be a master chef, when you should be at the salad bar :-)

You need to be 100% clear on the meaning and use of function definition, function call, parameter, and argument. Go over the "Writing Scripts - Basics" document again, with a fine tooth comb. If you want to do more than just change my numbers and colors here and there, you need to understand every word of that.

Create small tasks for yourself, then find a way to write a python function to do it. Then call the functions you make in various ways and orders, until you start thinking naturally in terms of breaking a problem down into function definitions and parameters, and a set of calls to those functions with different arguments. On top of that, you have to figure out how to accomplish your desired effects with shader nodes. That too will come with lots of practice, but if the python stuff is getting in your way, you need to fix that first.

Once you do that, you'll become super fast at working through shader tree variations.

 

 

Thanks very much BB.

I now have more than enough to start making Salads.

That really bites when you spend all that time on something, only to have a Froum dump it on you.

I started doing some longer replys in NotePad and then Cut & Paste, just for that reason.

 

Cheers

DR

 

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