OLA MADSEN shares a post on how to dimple a surface by means of a particle collision in Softimage using a few simple steps in ICE. Check out the post on How to Create Dimple When Particles Collide With a Surface in Softimage Ice at Caffeine Abuse.
“Just a few years ago (or versions of Softimage if you will) this type of effect would require a fair amount of time and patience and certainly wasn’t something you would whisk together in three little steps. By using ICE there’s actually very little information you need to extract from the scene in order to create the dimples. You obviously need to find the whereabouts of the particles and the points on the geometry you want to dent but that’s about it.”
