thats is my concern too. as much as I embrace a decoupling from maya, its how ICE is capable to talk to different scene elements that makes it so powerful. managing data until the very least work process at render time. and we are in full control. as beautiful big ass fluid sims look, its not what we day for day. please have a look on the ‚what uses is ICE?‘ thread (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/xsi_list/7aGyes8lBQE)
thanks Am 21.03.2014 um 18:29 schrieb Alastair Hearsum <hear...@glassworks.co.uk>: > Hi Adrian > > I'm no egg head so forgive the simplicity of my question. Would this platform > agnostic scenario actively prevent any of the procedures and scenarios that > we currently use ICE for? Is ICE so functional because its embedded in > Softimage? Can we have the same functionality with a non embedded engine? > > Alastair > > Alastair Hearsum > Head of 3d > > 33/34 Great Pulteney Street > London > W1F 9NP > +44 (0)20 7434 1182 > glassworks.co.uk > Glassworks Terms and Conditions of Sale can be found at glassworks.co.uk > (Company registered in England with number 04759979. Registered office 25 > Harley Street, London, W1G 9BR. VAT registration number: 867290000) > Please consider the environment before you print this email. > DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and attachments are strictly privileged, private and > confidential and are intended solely for the stated recipient(s). Any views > or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily > represent those of the Company. If you are not the intended recipient, be > advised that you have received this e-mail in error and that any use, > dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail is strictly > prohibited. If this transmission is received in error please kindly return it > to the sender and delete this message from your system. > On 21/03/2014 16:53, Adrian Graham wrote: >> Ah, but may I respectfully point out that this was one of the problems with >> ICE, in that its complete and total integration into Softimage makes it >> difficult to engineer and manage, from a software and, unfortunately, a >> marketing point of view. >> >> Most modern software libraries are platform-agnostic, and this is what we're >> aiming for with Bifrost. The problem with ICE is that you had to use >> Softimage in order to gain access to it. Nothing against Softimage, just >> that you're limiting ICE's exposure to the industry at large. >> >> Would a renderer be more or less popular if it only worked with Maya, and >> not with Max or Houdini? No, it should be available on all applications, on >> all OSs if you want it to be successful. >> >> Adrian > >
