Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-17 Thread Gerbrand Nel
I forgot about the free momentum 1 and the free implosia over at rray.de For this job, those did the trick. Thanks for the advice. oh and Stefan... Blender... Really?? No one has time to learn that interface, I would rather erase my memory and learn the zbrush interface again, before I try and

Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-17 Thread Thomas Volkmann
I thought the interface argument was valid before they did the rebuild does it still feel so bad to those that are not used to it? Personally I like it a lot, but then I originally started learning 3D in Blender :/ /Thomas Gerbrand Nel g...@cannonballbunny.com hat am 17. Oktober 2012 um

Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-17 Thread Gerbrand Nel
I don't know.. maybe you just cant teach an old animator new software.. and I'm not even old :P On 2012/10/17 01:41 PM, Thomas Volkmann wrote: I thought the interface argument was valid before they did the rebuild does it still feel so bad to those that are not used to it? Personally I

Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-17 Thread Andy Moorer
I built the emit srt-matched instances compound a few years back prior to momentum and implosia entering the scene. The idea was to pre-cut geometry using pre-ice scripts that are probably still around (though later I began to use Houdini to make fragmented models, looked better.) the compound

Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-17 Thread Gustavo Eggert Boehs
The opensource versions of both Implosia and Momentum are quite usable... of course if you are in production you probably want the latest and greatest. Specially since they are not that expensive.

Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-17 Thread Andy Moorer
@$#%!ing autocorrect... I standing = instancing. That's what I get for using mobile devices for email. And btw for the record Siri is a useless $@!%.. ;) the compound then simply makes I standing all the fragments easy for use with standard ice RBDs.

Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-17 Thread Tim Crowson
See, it can't even spell 'Autocowrecked' right tsk tsk... -Tim C. On 10/17/2012 3:31 PM, Andy Moorer wrote: @$#%!ing autocorrect... I standing = instancing. That's what I get for using mobile devices for email. And btw for the record Siri is a useless $@!%.. ;) the compound then

ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-16 Thread Gerbrand Nel
Hey guys I know you can do RDB in ice using particles, but I want to fracture and simulate chunks breaking apart. I know Momentum does this with two buttons, but I don't own that yet, and this is a small job so I cant spend half my budget on software. Can this be done with out of the box

Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-16 Thread Stefan Andersson
The hours you spend on trying to get that to work you could have spent on buying a Momentum or ImplosiaFX license :) Here are two things you can do. 1.) Brute force method But you can break up the mesh with ice and then freeze the geo, and then extract the pieces. Then use those to simulate.

Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-16 Thread Adam Sale
momentum and implosia... done.. You can break up with ICE http://vimeo.com/28138992 but you will need to extract the islands individually to run with vanilla bullet rbds.. And ICE shatter has issues with complex shapes, lots of concavities. Which is where Implosia shines. The default shattering