Lymond Ngaiza

ChrisBohm
I know this is an old post, but since I just figured out how to do it I might as well answer for the next generation:

It's actually quite easy.
When you choose a AOV in the dropdown, for example "RGBA", you just change this to "RGBA_*", which means it creates a RGBA AOV for every light group. Same for example for diffuse: Instead of just "diffuse" you change it io "diffuse_*".

It is important though to create a ligth group for your lights. A light group is kind of an id for one or many lights. you can set the light group of a light in the Contribution Tab> AOV Light Group.

Unfortunately the documentation from solidangle does not describe the method very well...

Cheers

jsmack
Assuming adding a layer of vex to convert from float to string is a pain, the ftrim() expression can be used to pretty print floats as strings.

ftrim(detail(-1, "test", 0))

sprint("%.3f", 0.7838759687)

sprintf

tamte
as mentioned previously, it's has to do with floating point precision
even if you do: f@target = 0.998;
you will see that the Font SOP will still print something else, like: 0.99800002574920654

it's because it can't represent 0.998 precisely as a floating point number

so you'll need to format your floating point number into a string using sprintf() for example

sprint("%f", floatValue);

sprint("%.2f", floatValue);