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Freezing Particle Instances?

Freezing Particle Instances?

2004-03-24       - By Raffaele "ThE_JacO" Fragapane

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Essentials has particles since v2, so if that’s the only reason keeping you
from keeping it particles, it’s a non issue

You also realize that moving from bounding boxes in the GUI and instances In
rendering to real geometry is gonna be a quite massive slowdown under every
aspect, don’t you ?



Last but not least, if you REALLY need to convert to objects, your only hope
is in scripting.

No “expand instances on particles into a cloud of objects” command is
implemented yet, I heard Montreal was planning to put one in, but then they
gave up because there was nowhere in the interface to fit such a long name.



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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Morten Bartholdy
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:50 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Freezing Particle Instances?



I have used particle emmision to model an uneven surface from a group of
irregular spheres, using instances. Question is, is there a way to expand
these instances to regular geometry so I no longer need the particle system?
This is because I want to continue modeling on the new surface and I would
like to get rid of the particles so I also have the option of working with
the model in XSI Essential.



I tried Isners Instance Duplication script but get an error on line 39 -
maybe it does not work with Particle Instances...



Any suggestions?



TIA!



Best Regards



Morten Bartholdy
3D Animator & Visual Effects Supervisor
Colorshop VFX
Denmark


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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] <b><span
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:50
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> XSI@(protected)<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Freezing Particle
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have used particle
emmision&nbsp;to model an uneven surface from a group of irregular spheres,
using instances. Question is, is there a way to expand these instances to
regular geometry so I no longer need the particle system? This is because I
want to continue modeling on the new surface and I would like to get rid of the
particles so I&nbsp;also have the option of&nbsp;working with the model in XSI
Essential.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I tried Isners Instance Duplication
script but get an error on line 39 - maybe it does not work with Particle
Instances...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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3D Animator &amp; Visual Effects Supervisor<br>
Colorshop VFX<br>
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Denmark</st1:place></st1
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