Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-03 Thread Alan Fregtman
Does the CacheOnFile node support Kai's single-file pc2 sequences? because KP_PointCache produces a single file per mesh for the whole export. I imagine Alok's must support this (along with a file-per-frame.) On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Steven Caron wrote: > actually, the cache on file nod

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-03 Thread Steven Caron
try it? i cached using the cache manager just now, one file per object for the entire sequence. i haven't tried multiple files per frame (does softimage even export pc2 files this way?) we know the pc2 support in softimage is limited. so alok's contribution is very welcome. On Sun, Nov 3, 2013

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-03 Thread Alok Gandhi
I am a little confused. My node does exactly what KP_PointCache reader operator does. It reads a .pc2 file per object for mulitple or single frame depending on how you exported, with all the bells & whistles like just read one frame, do a time warp, select different modes of interpolations (linear,

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-03 Thread Steven Caron
no one said that you could have multiple objects in the same .pc2 file. On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Alok Gandhi wrote: > I am a little confused... > > For sure, you cannot have multiple objects in the same .pc2 file, the > format simply doesn't support that. > > >

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-03 Thread Alok Gandhi
Ah I see, I was confused when you said " i haven't tried multiple files per frame (does softimage even export pc2 files this way?)". Well in that, sure you can export single file per frame per object through KP_PointCache manager, you simply have to select the start and end frame as the same. PC2