Re: Freeze ICE tree to geometry?

[Tim Crowson]

Title: Signature

It's actually nothing very interesting. In fact it's bad for performance. I'm using Milan Vasek's (awesome) scatter tools to scatter small spikes on a stick (somewhat like the small spikes on an evergreen frond). Only about 100-150 of them. Then I parent the resulting pointcloud to the emitter geo (the stick) and use that as the instance source for a second scatter system. This gives me the control I want for both scatter systems. However, if I manually model the equivalent of the first scatter system, and use that as the instance source for the second system instead of another Scatter, performance is far better. Which stands to reason. Would someone smart kindly make an L-system in ICE? :) -Tim C. On 7/11/2012 8:11 AM, Mihail Djurev wrote: Hello SI list! Tim, could you share with us how you achieved that? Mihail On 10.7.2012 г. 18:06 ч., Tim Crowson wrote: I'm rendering this with Mental Ray. I found a solution that lets me render what I want without having to freeze it to geo. But it would still be nice to know how to do it. -Tim On 7/10/2012 12:45 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: What are you rendering with? S. _____________________________ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _____________________________ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of phil harbath [phil.harb...@jamination.com] Sent: 10 July 2012 07:05 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Freeze ICE tree to geometry? momentum instancer perhaps. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Crowson To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 6:24 PM Subject: Freeze ICE tree to geometry? I'm needing to freeze the results of my non-simulated ICE tree to geometry so I can optimize its use in another ICE tree. (wanting to scatter something that was built by a scatter to beginwith). Concerns about geo density not-withstanding, is there a way to freeze a non-simulated ICE tree to editable geometry? -- Tim Crowson Lead CG Artist Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. 2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 Ph  615.885.6801 | Fax  615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com   --   --