well, fabric has already proven they can. i mean, integrate visualization tools into softimage but have the data be separated. as long as you have good support for your target renderer (ie. render time procedural) and good support for caching softimage is just a host.
it is a question of, interest, time, and money... someone has to be interested in investing the time to make some (little) money. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Sebastien Sterling < [email protected]> wrote: > If you wanted to make it all within SI, but what if it was an external > engine, like yeti, or fabric ? > > > On 15 February 2014 02:19, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ya, if you want to make your own curve tools that might turn out better.. >> but ask eugen sares how this area is lacking too ;) >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Sebastien Sterling < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> how about a system where you create and style guides before sending the >>> data to ICE ? melena has a create strands from curve node, it seems >>> doable... >>> >>> >>> On 15 February 2014 02:13, Sebastien Sterling < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> :- ( >>>> >>>> >>>> On 15 February 2014 02:04, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> i experimented with a custom tool, which would write ice data arrays >>>>> directly, so this could be for brushing existing strands, cutting strands, >>>>> etc. i found the SDK wasn't behaving correctly in this area, i stopped it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Sebastien Sterling < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ICE on it's own won't yield a solution, a method of interaction is >>>>>> required, you need to be able to interact with the hair directly, with a >>>>>> pen and tablet. i thought maybe this hair system could take care of the >>>>>> guides, once this is done you import the guide data into ICE, which in >>>>>> turn >>>>>> takes care of populating, generating strands and such. this would allow >>>>>> for >>>>>> an artistic manipulation of the guides while maintaining the modularity >>>>>> and >>>>>> versatility of ICE. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
