ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-04-16 Thread Pierre Schiller
Hi group. :) I´ve been trying to cache a 4 by 3 grid with syflex ICE simulation with the cache manager. The grid has an extra operator: turbulize mesh, on top of it. I´m trying to instance this geometry for a pointcloud. It´s basically an emitter emitting different pictures from an image sequence.

Re: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-04-17 Thread Oscar Juarez
If you are losing your "mySpriteID" when caching, visualize it in the viewport before caching, ICE optimizations sometimes will throw away attributes even if you specified that they should be cached, by visualizing them you are forcing ICE not to throw them away. On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:00 AM, P

Re: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-04-17 Thread Rob Chapman
Depending which version of si you are running, one can only cache direct from syflex to cache manager if the syflex was made in ice. If you applied syflex as an operator them you will have to cache from within the syflex toolbar first and then cache manager would work. It's in the manuals. On 17

RE: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-04-17 Thread Ola Madsen
included in the free emTools. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Oscar Juarez Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 10:17 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip? If you are losing

RE: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-04-17 Thread Pierre Schiller
I'm using SI 2015. I made the syflex setup on ICE. I'm caching via cache manager. So all I get is the syflex sim cached but no additional deformation (on top of my syflex ice setup I got a turbulize mesh op, which doesnt cache either..). Displacement control instance animation isn't helping to offs

Re: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-04-18 Thread Rob Chapman
ok thats two issues, lets stick with one at a time. what you are saying is that turbulize on top of syflex will not work? this is to be expected. Are you seeing the additional turbulize deformation in the viewport? here I try and see nothing, so if you want additional deformations on top of a c

Re: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-04-18 Thread Rob Chapman
also, who knows how you currently have this set up in the operator stack. As a heads up, you cannot deform on top of a cache if the deform is in the simulation stack because each frame gets overwritten by the cache. therefore you need to apply it in the modelling region but above the cache / mixer

Re: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-04-20 Thread Pierre Schiller
@Rob, thank you for your .scn I see you have cached the simulation and then applied a live operator (turbulize mesh) I see the syflex ICE tree under the simulation operator stack. Grid has a syflex sim, grid1 has a turbulize mesh with a cached sim. My original intent is to cache the syflex sim (vi

Re: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-04-21 Thread Rob Chapman
Hey Pierre, about instances losing shape animation on cache playback. 2 things there, an attribute called shapeinstancetime or similar is not being stored or read correctly. Here is a quick fix suggestion, take whatever logic is applied to the uncached instances in the sim and apply it to the cach

Re: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-04-21 Thread Pierre Schiller
Thank you for that tip Rob. I was reading and caching files with the cache node on ice. I wrote my timeline, then set it to read, play (it plays forwards but not backwards, and I followed the ICE help) so I stopped using it and decided to use Cache manager. But good point, I didn´t think about shap

Re: ICE Syflex conversion to animation clip?

2015-05-07 Thread Pierre Schiller
Here´s the rest of the workflow on SI-community. Couldn´t solve it. :( http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5860 On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Pierre Schiller < activemotionpictu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for that tip Rob. I was reading and caching files with the