It may not be high on the priority list, but I'm starting to see a trend where we get the beginnings of a lot of really cool tools in ICE, but they are never really fully flushed out to make them usable to the average user. Syflex, and ICE kine as well as ICE modeling come to mind. Some great promise, but highly inaccessible to the normal lay person.
Why shouldn't it be a priority to finish a tool like Syflex? Isn't that what made SOftimage so great for all those years.. that the user base actually had flushed out tools that were stable... I can't imagine that the philosophy of ICE is to build it halfway, and let the user finish off development... Well, I mean, I guess that is the point of ICE, but there should at least be a baseline standard that those tools should have to meet OTS, which would include making it work straight away without having to hack the compounds. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Guillaume Laforge < guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let me +1 too. > > Syflex devs spent quite some time before being able to run Syflex custom > ICE nodes as fast (or faster) than the custom operators they did before. > Things are not always easy I guess... > > So for this version 1, it was not possible to support per point values on > various parameters. > > I don't know if this feature is high on the to do list though... > > Guillaume > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:20 AM, adrian wyer < > adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> Adrian Wyer >> Fluid Pictures >> 75-77 Margaret St. >> London >> W1W 8SY >> ++44(0) 207 580 0829 >> >> >> adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com >> >> www.fluid-pictures.com >> >> >> >> Fluid Pictures Limited is registered in England and Wales. >> Company number:5657815 >> VAT number: 872 6893 71 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com >> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bk >> Sent: 01 May 2012 10:07 >> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> Subject: Re: Ice syflex integration >> >> Syflex Within ICE. I can still remember how the first news of that set my >> imagination alight with possibilities. >> Then I played with it and, no, hold on. What's this? no weightmap inputs? >> But that's even in the regular version. >> It's like they've taken ICE. Stuck Syflex in, but didn't quite get the >> point >> of what the visual programming environment of ICE is actually for. >> On the up side. You can edit the base mesh and not have to reapply >> everything from scratch. It does have some minor advantages. >> I do hope that we are going to see Syflex in ICE completed at some point, >> though. >> >> >> >> On 30 Apr 2012, at 22:17, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > ...or use Momentum, it supports a lot of per point attributes on >> softbodies. >> > I remember some ice related bugs were logged, but they should be fixed >> by >> now. >> > >> > Of course the bullet cloth solver is not as robust as syflex so it may >> or >> not be an alternative. >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4970 - Release Date: 04/30/12 >> >> >
