Thanks Olivier, I had a 'lightbulb' moment one day. It doesn't happen very
often.

On 13 April 2016 at 13:30, Olivier Jeannel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Super clever !
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Exactly! Once you have the shrinkwarp working, you can do all sorts of
>> things. The 'blocks in a sock' look was exactly what I was after, but you
>> could smooth it etc to get the look you're after.
>>
>>
>> On 13 April 2016 at 12:21, Ed Manning <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Chris Marshall <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another solution you might be able to try, which I've used in certain
>>>> situations, is to create a polygon object in ICE with Convert Instances to
>>>> Mesh on an empty Polygon Mesh, from your particle cloud. Obviously you need
>>>> to use a simple sphere or icosohedron as the instanced particle. You can
>>>> then shrinkwrap your polygoniser object onto this, for a super tight fit.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, that's smart. Wish I'd thought of that a few weeks ago when I was
>>> trying to do something similar. I imagine you could then run a relax/smooth
>>> on the wrapped mesh to reduce the "blocks in a sock" look.
>>>
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