Nika Ragua demonstrates how it is possible to work with particles in Softimage similarly to the way that you would in 3ds Max using Karkatoa, by using Eric Mootz’ emRPC4, a point cloud rendering tool for Softimage ICE.
emRPC4 is a point cloud renderer actualized as ICE nodes and Compounds in Softimage that can render point cloud effectively and directly to disk in various image formats. emRPC4 is built to be fast and supports particle self-shadowing, ambient occlusion and global illumination, and even camera depth of field.
emRPC4 is for Softimage 2011 SP1 and above and carries the price of 99 Euros.
