Agreed, also how to 'grow' meshes from curves or animation data, on these newly generated meshes to then select polys by area or closest to a pointcloud ,merge surrounding polys to current selection, extrude this etc. maybe how to blend between some instances and a ICE modelling mesh. A controllable (by proximity, CAV map,weight,) localized subdivision would be great. I have no clue how to get all this to work in one ICE modelling tree together - have managed to bodge together two different examples - a repeated extrude from a random selection, but I cannot control the extrusion very well - but this is the only examples we have so far that are not crowds or fences :)
https://vimeo.com/40452537 http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/ice-modeling-extruding-a-random-polygon/ Cheers Rob On 17 July 2012 10:21, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > What I'm finding is simply that almost everything I try either doesn't do > what I expect or doesn't do anything at all. > Some fundamental basic workflow examples would be useful, just to get the > general logic clear. > > Understanding why repeat loops don't work and how to work around that. > How to get animation of particles from a point cloud to build an ice object. > I spent a day trying to get that to work with no luck. > I'd like to be able to control the positioning of elements by translating or > rotating them in local space. > > Thanks > By lunch today would be useful!? > ;-) > > > > On 16 July 2012 18:05, Grahame Fuller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What sort of tutorials do you want to see? Creating shapes from the ground >> up, or something else? >> >> What I have found is that the topo nodes themselves are not that >> complicated. The hard part is the math and logic you need to control them. >> So maybe math tutorials are needed? >> >> gray >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall >> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 09:44 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: ICE modeling >> >> Yes!! >> On 16 July 2012 11:50, adrian wyer >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> +1 on the request for ICE modelling 101 >> >> had a glance at the digital tutors one, but it's more about cloning than >> actually 'modelling' >> >> this feature REALLY needs some in depth tutorials!! >> >> a >> >
