Comments on: Sixbirds PixelParticles 1.0

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:58:32 +0000

Hi again,

ive managed to get it working! great stuff:) no idea why it didnt work before.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:28:52 +0000

Hi Helge,

That tool looks great ! ive just tried it out but im getting errors for some reason, and all im getting is an empty point cloud called *_pixels , and object called *_pixels which has a SCOP on it. but i cannot see an ice tree or nodes on either.

By: Felix Bueno

Felix Bueno — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:06:51 +0000

Hi Robert

The link has been fixed. Sorry, we were doing some server-maintenance stuff today ;)

Regards

Felix Bueno
SixBirds

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:28:48 +0000

Hi Helge,

Hope your well dude!
I’m having some problem with the download link – is it still there?

Cheers
_Rob

By: Helge Mathee

Helge Mathee — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:12:48 +0000

Hey Piere!

Long time no see! :)

No, you can’t control the path, you can only control the mapindex, which will change the index of the written texture (the index is a number inside the path). This is not ideal, I am aware, but it is due to a limitation inside of 2010’s SDK. You can’t have a string as part of an ICE node.

Hope this helps,
regards from Barcelona.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:07:56 +0000

Hey Helge!

Kennste mich noch? Lange nix mehr voneinander gehört :D
“Pixel-Particles” sind feini-feini!

But I have one little question:
1. Is it possible to set the path and file name/type? This is very important for production-workflow. Maybe I overlooked this option.

By: Perry Harovas

Perry Harovas — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:06:11 +0000

Awesome so far, are really fast! One problem I am running into, the UV’s for a cube (with a cubic map) seem to only work with one side of the cube. I will try with another scene to test, but so far, that is something I can’t get around yet.

OK, back again…
It looks like it’s an issue with overlaps. If there are no overlaps, then it works on all side. If there are any overlaps, it doesn’t. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks again.

By: Thomas Helzle

Thomas Helzle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:29:16 +0000

Hi Helge,

brilliant. Big thanks to you, the contributors and Sixbirds!
I can already see tons of uses for this :-)

Cheers from Berlin!

Thomas

By: AndyN

AndyN — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:43:55 +0000

Great stuff as usual Helge. Nice bit of lateral thinking. Looking forward to trying this out.

BTW, it sounds a bit like you’re getting played out by Keyboard Cat on the video ;-)

Cheers
A

By: Steven Caron

Steven Caron — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:21:28 +0000

great idea to visualize the a feather system’s distribution/flow… we have been using mbFeatherTools here at blur and in order to do the visualization of the flow i just made a texture map with arrows on it. was faster than using the particles… especially when counts go way way high