This video is for anyone who wants to get a very simple overview of how to make a particle system in ICE and how to manipulate it.
I’m mainly using the ICE menu on the left hand side to set up the tree, as it gives a very easy way to experiment without having to understand everything at once. (By the way, I’m not trying to make anything pretty here! It’s just a demo of basic capabilities)
Stephen Blair writes: When you’re moving points around with ICE, it’s important to understand the basics of vector math, such as vector subtraction. It’ll help you understand and visualize (in your head) what you’re really doing when you plug together nodes in an ICE.
To demonstrate, I show how to use vector subtraction to move a point on to a circle.
mNewton2 is an implementation of Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of universal Gravity, which roughly goes like this:
“Each particle attracts each other particle with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.” This plugin for Softimage’s ICE can be used to create simulations that are driven by gravity, such as solar systems or stars with an accretion disc. Furthermore this plugin has a “fusion” functionality meaning that intersecting particles melt together. emNewton2 is well integrated into ICE and works nicely with the built-in compounds such as forces, obstacles, subframe sampling and other effects.
Eric Mootz writes:
The following things are demonstrated and/or explained in this tutorial:
starting at 00:00 > “Intro”.
starting at 01:23 > “Quick look at the ICE Trees”.
starting at 04:29 > “emTools’ Create 3D Point Primitive”.
starting at 08:00 > “emTools’ Turbulize / Twist Position”.
starting at 10:11 > “Calculate Orbit Velocity”.
starting at 10:58 > “Our Solar System”.
starting at 12:42 > “Physical Units”.
starting at 14:21 > “Extracting Solar System Objects”.
starting at 16:12 > “Time Unit / Subframe Sampling”.
starting at 17:27 > “Melting Particles”.
starting at 20:07 > “emNewton2 as a Force”.
starting at 21:55 > “I have the flu”.
Victor Fernández Cotura writes: I thougt it would be nice to have the tutorial from the Softimage Wiki as compiled as possible and here are the results. Here are the compounds:
mediafire.com/?lvrsnf857ewjk2g
Paul Smith writes: This is using ICE (and pixel particles) to instance non-distorting image samples onto a deforming mesh. In this version It is grabbing a random section of a texture, but It can be also be controlled with precision, so you can have exactly what image you wish to have at whatever particle. I am getting increasingly interested in the potential of texture manipulation and generation in ICE.. I’m also looking forward to trying out this Image input output plugin.
si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1975 ;)
And even though this can all be done now, ideally the Softimage devs will add optimised and supported Image processing in ICE in the future.
noise types:
level 1: cellular (overall rock shape)
level 2: fractal (erosions)
level 3: turbulence (high frequency displacement)
comes with rock shader rt compound.
video at 2x speed.
Download at Si-Community:
ice compound: si-community.com/community/download/file.php?id=1539
rendertree shader compound: si-community.com/community/download/file.php?id=1540
A set of tools (compounds and little scripts) to aid Softimage Motionographers. I’m trying to ease the workflow as much as possible, as I dont need to tackle speed and customizability since ICE takes care of that.
The Add-on can be found in here (right-click to download direct link):
gustavoeb.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/MotionTools.xsiaddon
This tool was initialy created at this forum thread grabbing some ideas from other users:
si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=45&p=13931&sid=6f06f772226e29d0cb566df42afc8fdd#p13931
