Heatmaps is there a better way?

Support Materials and Textures
1

Hi everyone,

I am trying to setup a material that I can show fatigue/stress on a part, but not sure the best way to go about it, it doesn’t have to be scientifically correct but still look like it could be plausible.

I have created the below test gif to show what I currently have setup I am using an empty for the mapping of where I want to place the effect.

heatmap-animation

Also my rough quick node setup is below, to show my way I achieved the current effect

node-setup
node-setup2726×1128 705 KB

Thanks in advance for any ideas people may have

2

Dynamic Paint maybe? It will create vertex colors, which you can use inside material.

3

Thanks for the reply I have had a look into doing it with dynamic paint but your mesh seems to have to be really dense with vertices to get a similar result to the above that I have created. Unless I am doing it wrong in anyway? Has anyone got any example of a setup?

4

There is also bake image sequence option in DP settings which relies on UV map and doesn’t require density mesh. But needs to be baked before using.