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Morten,
Is the obj2particles not useful?
I would imagine that your geometry count would go
through the roof. I just had a thought, can you use
the obj2particles script to place regular instanced
geo?? Then you could expand them to regular geo
right?
Eric Lampi
--- Morten Bartholdy <xsi@(protected)> wrote:
> Thanks for pointing out the fact that Essential has
> Particles now - I have Advanced but deliver models
> to a company that have both and assumed I had to
> stay away from Particles for that reason.
>
> I am fully aware of the risk of slowdown but I stay
> below 30K triangles total so it is not really a
> problem. I agree that for other purposes it would
> make sense to stick with BBoxes and Instances, but
> for this I need to model some more after creating
> the basic surface.
>
> This is a test patch showing what I need to create:
>
> http://colorshopvfx.dk/XSI/Bulepels_test01.jpg
>
> There are other ways of getting to where I want to
> go and for this I eventually went with Helges
> Scatter tool. It requires me to model base geometry
> with fairly evenly sized and spaced polygons in
> order to achieve the look I need, which is why I
> explored the Particle way. See this test displaying
> how Scatter works:
>
> http://colorshopvfx.dk/XSI/Bulepels_test02.jpg
>
> Basically I was curious to know if there was a way
> to use Particle for this and other modeling
> purposes, as I find that procedural modeling and
> especially random duplicator tools are somewhat
> lacking in XSI. It would really make sense to allow
> "full" use of the positioning and randomizing
> functionality of the Particle system also for
> modeling purposes, but maybe that is just me ;)
>
> If Montreal has that particular problem maybe it's
> time they empty their wallets and go for something
> bigger than 14" monitors ;D
>
>
> /Morten
>
>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
> From: Raffaele "ThE_JacO" Fragapane
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:24 PM
> Subject: RE: Freezing Particle Instances?
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> -~== Raffaele Fragapane ==~-
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> ==~-
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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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