Hi Julian, thank you so much for this, you've really bailed me out on this one. If you're ever in Melbourne I'll buy you a beer or 6. Once the project I'm working on hits the public I'll shoot you through a pic.
The sample scene was awesome, Cheers, Steve On 13 June 2013 19:04, Julian Johnson <jul...@exch.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On 13/06/2013 08:54, Steve Pratt wrote: > > Hi Julian, > > thankyou very much for the reply and the level of detail provided. Much > appreciated. > > So if my instance is a sphere it should work shouldn't it? I will have > another look at my ICE setup to see what I'm missing. > Good to know that other shapes won't work, makes sense now that you've > explained it. > > > Hi Steve, > > Ah. I see what you're saying. Yes, if you're using sphere instances it > should work fine but you need to then draw a distinction between your > spacing size and particle size. Since your instances will probably have > their size baked in e.g. a radius of 0.3 then the actual size you want them > to be instanced at is 1 so that they're not scaled. In Dart Throw you'd use > a spacing size of 0.3 and for your particle size use 1.0. If you're > randomising your sizes in Dart Throw you just need to set the size of the > particle to the ratio of output size to input size. I've put an example > here showing instanced spheres and internal ICE 'Shape' Spheres where you > should be able to see what I mean: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69741069/dthrow_sample.rar > > Julian > > > -- *"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed with the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."* - Mark Twain
