I'd like to create a material to cause my vertice-instanced objects to have their materials conform to a color ramp

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I have a basic geo-nodes setup so that I can instance a mesh on particular verts. However, I would like the material of the mesh that I am instancing to use its position to determine what each bulb's color should be, in accordance with the color ramp (and noted by the arrow in the below image):

I already know that I can realize instances and join everything to do this. But I'm trying to accomplish this in either the material or the geo-nodes array, if possible, so that I can quickly develop stuff without needing to realize-join-etc.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

You can't assign different materials to different instances of the same object, you need to realize the instances. You can do that automatically, non-destructively as in the link you provided, but you have to do it. Is where a way to pass data to material without realizing instances? — Markus von Broady, Jun 03 '22 at 11:44
And if you want to just use coordinates to differentiate color, but you want each instance to have a solid color, then you want to use snapping like here: Stadium Seating Letters — Markus von Broady, Jun 03 '22 at 11:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 03 '22 at 04:23

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did you try this setup?

i just stretched the values by the map range node.

answered Jun 03 '22 at 04:23

Chris

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I have replicated this node array (for the individual sphere that is being instanced). However, my results are not the same. – DocBadwrench Jun 03 '22 at 17:10

I'd like to create a material to cause my vertice-instanced objects to have their materials conform to a color ramp

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