Pontari Productions' Color_Gradient
Copyright 1995-1997 Pontari Productions.  All rights reserved.

This SGI port of our Color Gradient shader was done by Marvin Landis.
You should follow the normal steps to install a plugin user SGI LightWave.
This does require LightWave 5.0.

This is a plugin shader for LightWave 5.0  It will color a surface
using a gradient between two colors you specify.

You can control the direction of the gradient by giving a direction
vector.  An example is a gradient that is going from left to right on the
x-axis has a direction vector of (1.0, 0, 0).  Up and down is (0, 1.0, 0)
and so on.

You can also give the gradient a velocity.

The gradient has a size after which it will repeat.  The size is in LW 
units.  Note there will be a sharp color change when the gradient
begins to repeat.  Make the size larger until it correctly maps to
your objects surface.

To install this copy it to your plugins directory. Then you need to add it to
Layout using the "Add Plug-ins" button on the Options panel.  This
will add a new plugin shader in the surfaces panel calledn

Color_Gradient


Inlcuded with this archive is the DNA object from LightWave with a
sample gradient, once you have installed the plugin load it into LightWave
and render it to see how this shader works.

The source is also avaiable in case your interested, check our web pages
for details.

Be sure to check out Pontari's LightWave web pages
http://www.pontari.com/pontari/lightwave

And buy Super Glow.



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