In ICE, how would you generate an array like [1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, …] without using a Repeat node ?
It might help to look at it this way:
1 10 100 1000 10000 100000
Once you recognize that you are looking at powers of 10, and recall that the basic Math nodes can handle arrays just as well as single values, the rest follows easily:
Here’s an ICE tree that counts the number of characters in a string.
I use Get Sub String in a While with Counter loop to get one character at a time. The loop repeats until Get Sub String returns nothing.
Another building block for using arrays instead of Repeat loops: an array that looks like [0,0,0,0, 1,1,1,1, 2,2,2,2, …].
Again, the trick is to use this array as the indices for Select in Array.
Here’s how to build this kind of array:
Here’s a simple example. I get the positions of the objects in a group, and then use those positions to add points in a point cloud. Basically, I have a group of objects, and an array of vectors (the interpolated array). When I add a point, I take an object position and add a vector to it to get the point position.
In pseudo-code:
For each object in group
for each vector in array
Add Point
Point Position = vector + object position
If that ICE tree is hard to follow, then it may help to use some attributes to store intermediate values(arrays). That way you can separate out some branches of the tree:
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