In this video, I look into downloading and installing ICE compounds (.xsicompound files):
- Dragging compounds from Web page to an ICE tree
- Downloading compounds
- Using workgroups to store compounds
Downloading and installing ICE compounds
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Emitting a particle from each object in a group
If you’ve got a group of objects, how do you emit one particle from each object in the group?
BONUS: I show the 2012 AP Zoom on Cursor feature in the ICE Tree 😉
Using the Reserve Array node
Understanding locations in ICE
- In ICE, a location is a handle to a specific spot/point/location on a geometric object.
- A location is defined by the topology, so it’s a property that doesn’t change when the 3d object deforms.
- You use locations to “get data”. Given a location you read data, such as positions, normals, and weight maps, from the underlying geometry.
Per object data in ICE
When you’re working with a point cloud, and you want to keep some data on a per-object basis, you need to use one of the Set nodes (like Get Set Or or Get Maximum in Set). Or sometimes you can use arrays, as shown below.
Here we get an array of the points that are in State 1, and then save the size of the array (eg the number of points in State 1) as a per-object value.
The Show Values in the viewport:
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