Caiaran , thanks! :) exploring options right now. Guillamine has mentioned some hacks in the past on this list to get this cached with pointclouds.
Chris, I have a mesh made with ICE topo that 'grows' every frame. The scene now is very heavy with only this in and doing new stuff in it like add curves or pointclouds etc leads to 5 minute delay whilst Softimage 'does something' its most annoying. plus I need to emit particles from this object which at the moment just freezes Softimage and a ctrl alt del is necessary. Also I need to eventually send this geometry to the rendering scene for the farm and keeping it 'live' is not a way to go as there is some custom ICE trees used to make it. So, being able to cache geometry with changing polygon count is desired right now :) can try a cache topo - recreate topo as an option for sure. On 15 August 2012 13:03, Chris Chia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > What do you wish to do? Export the topo attribute of a prim and read it in > with another prim? > > > Chris > Sent from my iPhone > > On 15 Aug, 2012, at 6:57 PM, "Rob Chapman" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > so, ICE topo is been around for a while now, can we cache it? > > > > ' WARNING : 3000 - "Caching : Object topology (points count or edges > count or polygons count or uv sample) doesn't match." > > > > it appears not. there is nothing in the manual either. currently > searching some french ex softimage dev web site for clues :) > > > > cheers > > > > Rob >
