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Great Clarisse team,I really like a feature of vray. The position and angle of the sun can be automatically calculated by selecting the exposure point on the object. I tried it for many days and wanted to implement it with expressions, but all failed. I asked a mathematician friend, but I couldn't make it an expression in clarisse. I found that none of the parent objects can obtain their location information. This refers to the information of the constrained object, not the parent information. I think this principle is very simple and will greatly improve efficiency. Is there any simpler way to achieve this?
thank you very much

Hi,

Here is a snippet to get the global matrix of an object. With the global matrix, you'll able to calculate the position and the angle of the object whenever it's parented or constrained.

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loc = ix.get_item("project://scene/locator")
matrix = loc.get_module().get_global_matrix()

Cheers

Thanks for the reply, I have not learned the matrix. If you want to get the location information, how do you add it after this code?

Hi,

Like this

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loc = ix.get_item("project://scene/locator")
matrix = loc.get_module().get_global_matrix()

pos = ix.api.GMathVec3d()
ix.api.GMathMatrix4x4d.extract_translation(matrix, pos)

Hello, thank you very much for your answer. Is this py scripting? But I want to implement it in EXPRESSIONS so that I can see the position of the sun changing in real time

Yes, this is python. I miss understood you. What do you want to achieve? Write an angle to place the hotspot of an environment light ?

If yes you can simply place the hot spot of the env' light at the horizon, then parent the light to a fresh new locator and then use the rotation of the locator to place the hotspot with precision.

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I want to implement such a function

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGm6d9L ... e=youtu.be

Ok, I understand now. As expressions cannot receive the normal of the object you clicked on it's not possible to do that with expressions.

However, it's simple to create a mini light rig to achieve that. And you can create a script that creates automatically the setup for you and further that controls the settings.

Create a locator and a light. Parent the light to the locator and then you can use the snapping shortcut (S) to snap the locator on the object you clicked on. In the translate tool options make sure that "Align to Normal" is checked.

You can also use a surface constrain if you have moving objects so the locators will follow the moving parts.





Cheers

Thank you very much for your patience and I am very sorry, I feel a better way like this. It does not directly illuminate the vertical point of the surface, but enters the camera through reflection, just like the schematic diagram I drew below.
The locator2 in the picture can also be obtained like the project file you provided, but its coordinate value does not change, and the position where I picked it by get_double is its original position.
At present, I feel that I only need to know the position or normal vector of locator2 to find the position of the light source through the expression.
thank you very much

Got it.

Maybe this expression snipper can help you. It calculates the distance between two objects. But it is not taking the global matrix.

Seeprx :

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objectA = get_name("locator");
objectB = get_name("locator1");

xa = get_double(objectA + ".translate[0]");
ya = get_double(objectA + ".translate[1]");
za = get_double(objectA + ".translate[2]");

xb = get_double(objectB + ".translate[0]");
yb = get_double(objectB + ".translate[1]");
zb = get_double(objectB + ".translate[2]");

dist = sqrt(pow((xb - xa),2) + pow((yb - ya),2) + pow((zb - za),2));
dist

Cheers