Hey All, I made a custom ice node for directly reading .pc2 file in ICE. Not sure if somebody already wrote that, but it was fun spending almost an hour of weekend.
This implements most of the logic from KP_PointCache by Kai Wolter (available with source code on http://rray.de/xsi/) You can download the addon here <http://bit.ly/Hn9kJ3> (Windows 64 bit only / Works with Softimage 2011 and upwards) The addon has two files: 1. A Custom ICE node for reading .pc2 files. Almost all parameters from KP_PointCache are available in the node. 2. A Compound as wrapper around the low level node to implement the PPG (as there is no way to write a PPG Layout for a Custom ICE node in C++). It is not super useful as you can always put a point cache operator on a mesh and read point positions from that in an ICE Tree but it eliminates altogether the need of an .obj / mesh to read .pc2. Hope it helps somebody somewhere.
