I'm aware of plenty cases where one might need to, especially post-facto stuff where you just can't go back upstream (caches, things produced as manually operated chains for hacks, LODding something, bracketing something and so on).
In this case I was more proposing it's worth looking at that. 90% of the stuff that starts simply emitted can usually be halved more cheaply, and interacted with in more complexity producing better results, by reduing the emission rule hits and then a straight forward tweaking of any frequency based on the ID (if you have any). More of a food for thought than anything, I guess. Maybe should have not been formulated as a question. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Andy Moorer <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometimes when the opportunity presents itself (such as a weekend > available to cache on a local machine) I like to save out the maximum > density I can in a given timeframe simply because its easier to remove data > than to not have it at all or build up density by interpolating between > particles or the like. > > In regards to simple workflows... I have a couple of easy-to-build > compounds I keep handy (though its just as easy to build them as you go) > one which assigns particles a random number between 1-100, another which > tests for that value against a defined threshold for deletion or whatever. > It makes it very quick to be able to build structures which act on a > certain percentage of particles or to modulate other values with that > number. > > By always using the same compound/logic I free myself from having to give > it any particular attention or thought, I just drop the compounds in and > know what I'm going to get. Simple but useful, and since it is (for better > or worse) my own logic instead of one of the factory compounds I know what > is happening under the hood and don't have to worry about unexpected > results, pre-set contexts, or other caveats. > > Same goes for a number of other simple tools - the most useful being one > which returns a uniformly random vector of a defined magnitude. The factory > "randomize by cone" compounds irritate me. :) > > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
