Not sure how Rotate Vector works? Is that 26 words (including five “the”s) of documentations not doing it for you?
Fortunately, it’s not hard to rig up an ICE tree to help visualize what Rotate Vector does.
Compound is here if you want it.
Back in early 2002, Softimage introduced a new family of processing and rendering products: BatchUniversal, Batch, and mental ray standalone. The pricing, from today’s viewpoint, seems awfully high:
Here’s a screen capture of softimage.com from Feb 2002:
Here’s a couple of examples to illustrate how to use Sort Array with Key.
This ICE tree sorts points by their Y position.
And this tree sorts points by their brightness.
If you have a group of N different objects, and N points in a point cloud, then here’s a simple way to instance a different shape at each point.
The line of shapes in the background is the group.
Note the use of Get Point ID, which works even if the points don’t have their ID attribute set.
A couple of basic examples, because I didn’t see any screenshots in the docs.
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When you’re using Get Closest Locations, positions are local. That is, they are relative to the local coordinate system of the object that “owns” the ICE tree. The input Position is in local coordinates, so in most cases, (0, 0, 0) will do fine. And if you use the output locations to get positions, those positions will be in the local coordinate system of the ICE tree owner.
https://vimeo.com/85486760
Hat tip: Gray, who has posted this several (many?) times over the years.
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