Still it remains a pointcloud and not geometry which leaves you with the same limits as before.
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:13:08 +0000 > Von: Sandy Sutherland <[email protected]> > An: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Betreff: RE: Freeze ICE tree to geometry? > If you freeze the pointcloud - you can easily add an ice tree to it and > for e.g. just change the instance shape to another using that new ice tree - > the system is very powerful that way, the new ice tree just builds upon the > data frozen into the point cloud. > > S. > > _____________________________ > Sandy Sutherland > Technical Supervisor > [email protected] > _____________________________ > > > > > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Tim Crowson > [[email protected]] > Sent: 11 July 2012 16:50 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Freeze ICE tree to geometry? > > I can, and I do eventually, but I don't have any control over the > subcomponents in that frozen system. I can't model on top of it, extract > anything, > or tweak anything. It's literally a locked pointcloud with inaccessible geo > in it. > > Or is it? Is there some way of accessing the raw geo inside it that I have > overlooked? > > -Tim > > > > On 7/11/2012 9:39 AM, Ciaran Moloney wrote: > Can't you just freeze the first scatter system? It should keep all the > particle attributes as they were. Or, drop an empty simulation region into it, > so the scatter system will only ever be evaluated once instead of every > frame. > > > Ciaran > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Tim Crowson > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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 > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > _____________________________ > > > > > ________________________________ > From: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] > on behalf of phil harbath > [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: 10 July 2012 07:05 > To: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Freeze ICE tree to geometry? > > momentum instancer perhaps. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tim Crowson<mailto:[email protected]> > To: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > 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<http://www.magneticdreams.com> > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > -- > - Ciaran > > -- > > > > > > >
