Re: Falling Hairs or Fibers

2013-01-09 Thread Andy Moorer
:) A link to the scene is at the bottom of the post (I started doing that rather than just putting stuff on the download page of my site so that there will be a bit of context with files I give folks.) I doubt it fully solves your specific challenges but hopefully it will help. :D On Tue, Jan

Re: Falling Hairs or Fibers

2013-01-08 Thread Bryan Scibelli
Hi Andy, Thanks for the great materials to use and reference!! Was there a scene file that you wanted me to download specifically? I haven't had a chance to really dig in to this fully, but I will have more time later on this week and I will share what I come up with. Thanks! Bryan On Mon,

RE: Falling Hairs or Fibers

2013-01-07 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Well you can create strands from particles so they do not need to get stuck on a surface - so should be perfectly doable in ICE - do you have Softimage available? I will check the sample scenes and see if there is anything there! Something to look at -

Re: Falling Hairs or Fibers

2013-01-07 Thread Bryan Scibelli
Hi Sandy, Thanks for the quick reply. That looks pretty straight forward from the documentation. Where I would like to go with it would be to use something like the falling leaves preset, but use the strands in place of the leaves because most of the falling motion and physics are already in

Re: Falling Hairs or Fibers

2013-01-07 Thread Alan Fregtman
Are you sure you want strands then? You could instance a tube to the Leaf Falling example scene. Just plug an Instance Shape node to a Set Particle Shape node somewhere during emission. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Bryan Scibelli cinema...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sandy, Thanks for the quick

Re: Falling Hairs or Fibers

2013-01-07 Thread Andy Moorer
I've animated airborne dust as little wadded up strands and it looks pretty cool. For rotation I took the center of the bounding box of the wadded up strands as a point around which I would rotate both the particle and strand as a post-simulation effect (similar to the recent tutorial on my site

Re: Falling Hairs or Fibers

2013-01-07 Thread Andy Moorer
Actually, I just tried what I was getting at and it seems to work... I'll post a scene in a sec. - AM On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com wrote: I've animated airborne dust as little wadded up strands and it looks pretty cool. For rotation I took the center of the

Re: Falling Hairs or Fibers

2013-01-07 Thread Andy Moorer
Here you go - not sure it's exactly what you need, but hope it's handy and that you don't mind me putting it on my site publicly (trying to accumulate a host of simple examples like these for new ICE users.). http://andy.moonbase.net/ On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Andy Moorer

RE: Falling Hairs or Fibers

2013-01-07 Thread Sandy Sutherland
...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Andy Moorer [andymoo...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 January 2013 22:18 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Falling Hairs or Fibers Here you go - not sure it's exactly what you need, but hope it's handy and that you don't