Jordi is of course correct, I think this is an example of what can be done when all the disciplines come together nicely... http://www.whiskytree.com/public/portfolio/ely/
N From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Enrique Caballero Sent: Sunday, 2 February 2014 1:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Set Dressing Tool Ideas Thanks Nick and Jordi, I will check out scatter tools now. Jordi I agree completely with what you say, and at One Animation I usually only get about 1 to 2 weeks to develop anything. So I am very willing to try an out of box solution. I started playing with Vue Extreme today, it seems pretty powerful, but wow its not enjoyable at all to use, I will keep experimenting with it until i understand it better. I will also try world builder now thanks to your recommendation. -E On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Jordi Bares <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Very impressive tools.. :-) Sill amazed by what people produce with ICE Jordi Bares [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On 1 Feb 2014, at 11:58, Nick Angus <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Milan Vasek's Scatter Tools are my best friend when it comes to this sort of stuff. https://vimeo.com/36612233 He has created some pretty astounding imagery with them also http://www.milanvasek.com/?p=355 More advanced stuff that uses libraries of assets would have been used by the folks at Whiskytree, Steve Caron might be able to elaborate. But if you combine Scatter tools with Arnold instancing you pretty much have the best solution out of the box in my opinion. Cheers, Nick From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:softimage-<mailto:softimage->[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Enrique Caballero Sent: Saturday, 1 February 2014 3:50 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Set Dressing Tool Ideas Hey everyone, I was hoping to pick your brains. I am currently doing some research on how to simplify, and make cheaper our set dressing process over at this small shop that I work at. In the old days, when we did small simple shows, set dressing wasn't very difficult for us as there were limited amounts of props and environment pieces. We would just import referenced models and place them by hand/ But now that we do full forests and large amounts of rocks and plant life, we need to upgrade our techniques. As our original techniques are no longer sufficient. I am looking at how ICE can help us with the initial set dressing. Maybe by painting weight maps we can spawn different types of mushrooms and trees etc. I am currently experimenting with Dart Throw, and it looks very promising. Thanks Julian! Although I need to figure out how to get it to switch between different geo types, IE. Trees, mushrooms, etc. Currently I can only get it to spawn one geo type at a time. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about how we could simplify this stuff, as I said before, currently I am looking at Dart throw and ABScatter to see if they can help us out, but I am open minded. Has anyone tried Vue Studio or anything similar that they can recommend? best, Enrique
