I don't want to start all over again. But I don't see how Bifrost running as a parallel process in the background, could get at some point the same functionality as ICE. At this moment all you can do from that webinar ending video is create a particle grid domain, send the interacting geo to Bifrost, wait for it to simulate, cache using Alembic and get back that solution in Maya.
Again it could be addressed the same way by Softimage, but with the interactivity of ICE with the solution. For this kind of work I don't see any real advantage over Softimage/Realflow. Except that of generating the grid domain straight from the Maya UI and send the data to Bifrost. It is well known by us that ICE is not only a fluid solver. Maybe Autodesk will shut up my mouth in 5 years... ------------------------------------------------------- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. 2014-03-24 4:33 GMT-06:00 Nono <nnois...@gmail.com>: > 2014-03-21 17:53 GMT+01:00 Adrian Graham <adrian.gra...@autodesk.com>: > >> Ah, but may I respectfully point out that this was one of the problems >> with ICE, in that its complete and total integration into Softimage makes >> it difficult to engineer and manage, from a software and, unfortunately, a >> marketing point of view. >> >> Most modern software libraries are platform-agnostic, and this is what >> we're aiming for with Bifrost. The problem with ICE is that you had to use >> Softimage in order to gain access to it. Nothing against Softimage, just >> that you're limiting ICE's exposure to the industry at large. >> >> Would a renderer be more or less popular if it only worked with Maya, and >> not with Max or Houdini? No, it should be available on all applications, on >> all OSs if you want it to be successful. >> >> Adrian >> > > Hi, the aim is laudably but, as software engineers, wouldn't user > integration and usability be their end goal ? > > I mean, an internal engineer difficulty or a managing problem shouldn't be > a penality on the user side or limit the client user in functionality... in > my opinion here the sucess story about ICE is that's all in the level of > integration not on the technology. >
