Basically... I'm wanting to treat plants as though they were actors in a crowd sim. I'm experimenting with that now, but not getting very far, since the Crowd tools seem to want enveloped geo...

On 7/15/2014 8:34 AM, Tim Crowson wrote:
I'm thinking more of a scenario where the clumps (or whatever is being instanced) is actually being deformed by some kind of cache (pointcache probably). I'd like to find a way to offset their animation, but not strictly randomly...


On 7/15/2014 4:13 AM, adrian wyer wrote:
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make sure your 'ground' has plenty of subdivisions, throw a CAV property on it, use turbulence in an ice tree to push a fractal pattern through it

us the rgb values as vectors for clump rotation?

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*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Tim Crowson
*Sent:* 14 July 2014 23:39
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*Subject:* Randomized but natural offset motion of ICE-scattered items?

I'm looking at using ICE-scattering for more natural set dressing, but I really need to add some motion in there. I've done a fair bit of static stuff with over the last couple of years, but applying natural motion to scattered instances still eludes me. In the case of grass for example, I can't just offset a clump's animation randomly... there needs to be a pattern to it, to give the appearance of wind moving along or whatever. Is it possible to control (via a noise whose scale I can control), how ICE instances have their animations activated?

ICE noob here... thinking out loud....

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