A simple method for creating deformation for ICE strands in Softimage from tutorial author Rob Chapman where he creates a scene full of flowers and affects the plants with a rolling rock using collision objects and springs. Check out the full article a simple way to deform ICE strands in Softimage with collision objects and springs tutorial on Rob’s site here.
From Rob Chapman’s Description: “This is a dive into making an ICE compound for creating Strands that could be used to generate a field of plants or flowers where many different instances can be swapped out at render time. Also each plant instance needs to have the potential to get deformed by characters or object collisions..Using only particle instances alone it is difficult to have or control arbitrary collision events happening, but using some easy particle tricks with Strands we can not only specify which objects are instanced but also deform them along a Strand with dynamic effects like Collisions and Springs.”
