I’m looking to create some point data visualizations that display text or numbers on individual points of geometry (like in this reference, created with a sphere SOP and a line MAT)
Ideally, I’d like each point to display auto generated data (like scene position coordinates of each point in real time as the geometry moves and animates)
Can a line MAT point settings be customized to achieve this (I only see basic shape options) or would I need to use a TD particle system and custom sprites/ particles?
Any tips or recommendations are appreciated - thanks!
You should use geometry instancing for this. Each piece of data could be a rectangle sprite type geometry and you can use texture offset or texture instancing to change the data shown in each on. Search for tutorials on geometry instancing to get started.
Thanks Ben. I just started learning so I will definitely check out all the tuts i can find. It sounds like the texture instancing to display the data will be the trickier part, but I think I understand the basic idea.
Would i still be able to work with line MATs using that method or would i need to use compositing to combine 2 elements (wire frame geo + data) to achieve the look?
I don’t know how the Line MAT can give you the text data. It could do the line rendering part, as the lines and the texts is probably different Geometry COMPs anyways so they can have their own Materials.
