Pretty cool stuff Fabricio. Sorry for crashing the thread, but out of curiosity I took a look at your scene, and here the trunk and branches does not render - only the leaf cones. I am on 2013 SP2 - what do I need to do to render the trunk and branches too?
MB Den 12. august 2013 kl. 20:15 skrev Fabricio Chamon <[email protected]>: > Hi Gerbrand, > > I took a look at your scene (on SI2013). > > My solution was to replace leaf emission from the main pointcloud to a new > pointcloud to keep things simple. Then add points at strandpositions > (filtering by the original pointcloud last state_id - or strandtree > iteration) and query strand arrays to build a "root to tip" attribute on > each leaf. Finally do whatever you need with this new attribute, like > resize the particles with an fcurve and so on... > > hope it helps. > > > > 2013/8/12 Gerbrand Nel < [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > Cool, so you can check it out in 2013?? > > How do I get the leaves to go smaller towards the tip of each emitting > > branch? > > If it was a curve I could read the nearest U value and rescale that, but > > this strand business complicates things. > > The other thing I tried and failed at was to measure the distance between > > each leaf and the tip of the strand, to get a value to work with. > > But things get lost in arrays of weird-shit from my point of view. > > I hate knowing enough to get into this kind of crap, but not enough to get > > out!!! > > G > > > > On 2013/08/12 07:08 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: > > > I have 2013 SP1 too, so I can compare. It just doesn't work in 2014 SP2. I > > > unplugged everything but Basic Tree, and in 2014 SP2, Emit Leaves doesn't > > > add any points to the point cloud. > > > > > > > > > On 12/08/2013 12:44 PM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: > > > > Yeah probably > > > > I'm still in good old 2013 sp1 > > > > > > > > G > > > > On 2013/08/12 06:37 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: > > > > > In 2014 I see the same thing as Chris. > > > > > Probably some nodes were dropped on load...maybe you were using an old > > > > > version of Build Array from Set? > > > > > > > > > > On 12/08/2013 12:31 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 12 August 2013 17:21, Gerbrand Nel < [email protected] > > > > > > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hey Chris, Thanks for looking > > > > > > > On my side I see a stand tree with green cones where leaves will > > > > > > > be > > > > > > > Are you at least seeing that? > > > > > > > G > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2013/08/12 06:06 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm not seeing much when I open the scene? Or is that the > > > > > > > > problem? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 12 August 2013 16:25, Gerbrand Nel < [email protected] > > > > > > > > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > quest to get smarter with ICE. > > > > > > > > > I would very much like to create a mint bush procedurally > > > > > > > > > using ICE. > > > > > > > > > I started by first molesting a lovely compound created by > > > > > > > > > Fabricio Chamon > > > > > > > > > called strand tree. > > > > > > > > > I think Fabricio knew noobs like me would come along and try > > > > > > > > > this kind of > > > > > > > > > shit, because the compound responded with a full 3 hours of > > > > > > > > > sodomy. > > > > > > > > > It is time to beg you guys for some help!! > > > > > > > > > The leaves is the main problem. I have got the rotation and > > > > > > > > > position right, > > > > > > > > > but I have no clue how to scale them so they are small towards > > > > > > > > > the tips of > > > > > > > > > each stem. > > > > > > > > > Could someone please have a look at this scene. I'm sure it's > > > > > > > > > just a simple > > > > > > > > > array thing, but my mind has problems with arrays. > > > > > > > > > Thanks guys > > > > > > > > > G > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Chris Marshall > > > > > > > > Mint Motion Limited > > > > > > > > 029 20 37 27 57 > > > > > > > > 07730 533 115 > > > > > > > > www.mintmotion.co.uk <http://www.mintmotion.co.uk> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Chris Marshall > > > > > > Mint Motion Limited > > > > > > 029 20 37 27 57 > > > > > > 07730 533 115 > > > > > > www.mintmotion.co.uk <http://www.mintmotion.co.uk> > > > > > >
