Brightness depending on view?

[fmg]

Hello,

I'm working on a plane and like to change the brightness of a part depending on the actual view.
In the .ac-file the material is set to diffuse 1.0 and ambient 0.5.
If a special view is selected it should appear darker. Tried it with several code, but it never worked.
The brightness always stayed on the dark value, even when the condition ins't true.
This is my last code:

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  <animation>
  <type>material</type>
  <object-name>Innenraum</object-name>
        <condition> 
         <or>
          <greater-than>
           <property>sim[0]/current-view/view-number</property>
           <value>13</value>
          </greater-than>
          <less-than>
           <property>sim[0]/current-view/view-number</property>
           <value>11</value>
          </less-than>
          </or>
        </condition>

          <diffuse>
            <red>   0.28 </red>
            <green> 0.28 </green>
            <blue>  0.28 </blue>
          </diffuse>
 
          <ambient>
            <red>   0.15 </red>
            <green> 0.15 </green>
            <blue>  0.15 </blue>
          </ambient>

          <specular>
            <red>   0.03 </red>
            <green> 0.03 </green>
            <blue>  0.03 </blue>
          </specular>
   </animation>


What am I doing wrong?

[legoboyvdlp]

You need to define what happens when the condition is false: for example:

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<animation>
  <type>material</type>
  <object-name>Innenraum</object-name>
        <condition> 
<not>
         <and>
          <greater-than>
           <property>sim[0]/current-view/view-number</property>
           <value>13</value>
          </greater-than>
          <less-than>
           <property>sim[0]/current-view/view-number</property>
           <value>11</value>
          </less-than>
          </and>
</not>
        </condition>

   </animation>

notice the addition of not and changing of or to and.

If you do something like that it should work.

[fmg]

Thanks,
tried your code, but it stays the same. I tried also a clear condition before (view=11). But that also didn't work.
So I'm affraid that the problem isn't the condition. Is there a way to test if a condition is true?

[legoboyvdlp]

To be sure, you did also add a material definition to my code?

That is,

You had two seperate animations.
One is the code in your first post, and one is the code in my post, with the material settings added in?

Just to check the simple thing first

[fmg]

I used the material defintition I allready had.
If I would haved missed the definition it should stay bright, but it stayed dark.

[wlbragg]

Looking at examples in the c172p, i don't think you need the opposing condition. It should only change from default to "modified" if condition is true.
We use skydome = false as a condition to apply a material and also use a property value for the degree of change.

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    <animation>
        <type>material</type>
        <object-name>TrimWheel</object-name>
...
        <object-name>RudderTrimKnob</object-name>
        <condition>
            <not>
                <property>/sim/rendering/shaders/skydome</property>
            </not>
        </condition>
        <emission>
            <red-prop>/sim/model/c172p/lighting/rgb-ra-r-factor</red-prop>
            <green-prop>/sim/model/c172p/lighting/rgb-ra-g-factor</green-prop>
            <blue-prop>/sim/model/c172p/lighting/rgb-ra-b-factor</blue-prop>
        </emission>
    </animation>

Dummy it down and try a preset property you can change as the condition to see if you can get it to work at all.

[fmg]

Thanks for all the sugestions.
Tied it now to several properties, but it dosen't work at all. Looks like the condition-tag is simply ignored.

[wlbragg]

Then instead of a condition use a property factor that changes depending on view.

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<ambient>
  <red><red-prop>/sim/model/c172p/lighting/rgb-ra-r-factor</red-prop></red>
  <green><green-prop>/sim/model/c172p/lighting/rgb-ra-g-factor</green-prop></green>
  <blue><blue-prop>/sim/model/c172p/lighting/rgb-ra-b-factor</blue-prop></blue>
</ambient>


/sim/model/c172p/lighting/rgb-ra-r-factor is either 1.0 or 0.28 depending on condition.