Thanks Luc Eric, I thought the hair stuff looked very very nice... but the tree demo was simply sad. It SEEMED much slower than ICE for only a few low poly trees, and like you said I would expect it to very fast and scalable. The video makes it seem like just the opposite. It seems with Arnold standins I can handle much larger data sets in ISC...based on the demo video.
Is there a way to get this data into soft? I could see using the hair tools as my first step into the dark side ;). Could I write out Arnold .ass files? Thanks G -----Original Message----- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 6:31 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Maya Xgen the principle of XGen is that you setup the scene description in maya - expressions, ptex property maps, etc - and then the instancing/interpolation/etc engine will run uring rendering, in the xgen geometry shader. So it has the upper hand with very large data sets because the data is not calculated unless needed, and will never be created on the DCC side. It's about having a system that can scale to milions of hair/instances, and there are some definite tradeoff to that - xgen's engine is simpler than ICE. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi <ahmidou....@gmail.com> wrote: > > So finally, this is how it look like: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPZvG5H8MoY > > The funny thing is it's not that far from what we can do in ICE, > actually I made a set of compound that can do pretty much the same > thing: > https://vimeo.com/19323411 > > It's just missing the vector paint tool(on my TODO list), a better > viewport integration, and a nice caned UI, which is problematic with > ICE.
