rray - That worked a treat, thank you! I didn't realize it would be so simple to hook up within the render tree... I didn't know there was a mod op within the scalar basic node! dwigfor - Yes I'm pretty limited with render node knowledge. For some reason in didn't occur to me to use mod in either in...

Interesting, I think I understand. I'll give it a shot tomorrow, Thanks!

Hi! I'm using a material with Texture_Array_Switch, it includes around 80 images and check ID for the Attribute. So, in the emitting particle ICE tree the first 80 odd particles display the images (using Set Instance Geometry) but every one after that is of course emitting with the default texture. ...

A friend, Niosop, modified the script, I hope that's OK? It splits a .pts file into a user defined number of chunks and writes an icecache file for each. call it with something along the lines of "quick_parser.py filename.pts 0 50" 0 = the axis origin (0 = x, 1 = y, 2 = z). 50 = the number...

Sorry to open up an old thread here. Just wanted to say this has helped me quite a lot too and would like to say, thank you! However! Hehe, I have a point cloud which is in the hundreds of millions of points (the client wants the detail). And the only way to get it across is to chop it up and conver...

So Eric got back to me, told me I was doing it all wrong. emReader is for geometry, not particles. I'm such a fool!

Hey thanks for the response, Bullit. Yeah perhaps I should contact Eric RE the emReader.

I'll check out that ASCII post for now though! Thank you for that. Looks promising.

Hello, I have a .pts file of a building which I've converted to .bin using CloudCompare in the hopes of bringing into Softimage via emReader, but it doesn't seem to work. I'm guessing there may be some settings I need to apply in order for it to work correctly. Would anyone have any experience in th...

That worked, you're a genius! I did it like this: # Freeze mesh and skin mesh to _Socket Null def SkinMesh(): meshName = si.GetValue(mesh.Name) firstNull = (str(meshName) + '_Socket') secondNull = (str(meshName) + '_Ball') TM1 = si.GetValue('%s.%s.kine.posz' % (meshName, firstNull)) TM2 = si.GetValu...

Thanks, csaez. Gave it a shot and although it's cool watching the commands play through in the viewport, the nulls still end up back at origin. Unless I've done that incorrectly.

I have two Nulls positioned on a mesh using an ICE compound which is in the mesh's ICE tree. I want to save the position of the Nulls and then freeze or delete the compound from the mesh, then envelope the mesh to one of the nulls. The problem I'm having is even when I set a key on the position of t...

Thank you so much!

Sorry for such a simple problem, but it's a problem I can't figure out. I need to check if a group exists and if not create it. I've tried: wGroup = oRoot.FindChild('WeaponParts') if (wGroup != ""): si.SelectObj(wGroup) log("group exists") else: si.CreateGroup('WeaponParts') Whic...

Oh thanks, Steve. I'll learn quite a bit from both of these scripts. I remember seeing this one now, it would be sitting in my email xsi support folder, back home.

That is awesome, thanks so much, Kerro Perro!

I've created a ICE tree which attaches a null to the minimum and maximum Z axis sides of a mesh. I need to do this to attach multiple meshes together correctly. I'm a little stumped on how I should do this for all meshes. I have over 200 mesh objects that need their own two Nulls added in these posi...