[Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Dan Yargici
While I appreciate the software's efforts to cache only the ICE attributes that it deems necessary (unless I list all the ones I want - in this case, many); can we please, please, get a Just bastard cache everything, I don't care how big the cache files are button? I've lost hours today trying

Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Sebastian Kowalski
+1 for brute cache ! Am 06.02.2013 um 15:06 schrieb Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com: While I appreciate the software's efforts to cache only the ICE attributes that it deems necessary (unless I list all the ones I want - in this case, many); can we please, please, get a Just bastard cache

Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Rob Chapman
long way around but definitely a brute force approach. make a custom attribute display for each attribute you need storing. On 6 February 2013 14:14, Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com wrote: +1 for brute cache ! Am 06.02.2013 um 15:06 schrieb Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com: While I

Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks Rob. Yeah, I know about that one but it's just so hacky and shit, frankly. There really needs to be a fool-proof fallback implemented once and for all. DAN On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: long way around but definitely a brute force approach.

Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Rob Chapman
I know I know, I used to have various hacky ways to 'force' an attribute to be stored in a cache. daisychaining them or storing userdata in the color or whatever ;) all of them have failed me at some point until I happened upon a demo ICE topo scene provided by Ciaran Moloney and saw that every

Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Vladimir Jankijevic
one way of doing it is to put a Log Values between the data and the setData node. Even if the log node is muted, Log is unchecked, this node forces the attributes to be evaluated. Cheers Vladimir On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: I know I know, I used to

Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Sebastian Kowalski
I've got used to it, but still one of this small things that would ease up my daily routine ;) .sebastian Am 06.02.2013 um 15:51 schrieb Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com: I know I know, I used to have various hacky ways to 'force' an attribute to be stored in a cache. daisychaining them or

Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Alok
I would still advise using the forcing to be done through some arithmetic nodes - like adding a zero vector to point positions etc. Alok Lead TD Modusfx On 06/02/2013 11:14 AM, Vladimir Jankijevic wrote: the problem with this is that with the log node present in the tree, the icetree will

Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Martin Chatterjee
I'd second that. I normally use all attributes I want to force evaluation for to construct a zero length 3D vector. Then I do*GetPointPosition -- AddMyZeroVector -- SetPointPosition* as the last Execute in my tree. Has been working this way for me for years now. Cheers, Martin --

RE: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Subject: Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again. I'd second that. I normally use all attributes I want to force evaluation for to construct a zero length 3D vector. Then I doGetPointPosition -- AddMyZeroVector -- SetPointPosition as the last Execute in my tree. Has been working

Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again.

2013-02-06 Thread Alok
...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* 06 February 2013 19:24 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: [Mini rant-let] Caching attributes - again. I'd second that. I normally use all attributes I want to force evaluation for to construct a zero length 3D vector. Then I do *GetPointPosition