I've tried it, but couldn't get it to work (never used it before). caledonian_tartan's way works just perfect though ;]

Thanks, it does help. I guess I just have to wait for a project itself to know more. I won't be able to use "made-up" terrain though. It will have to be Hawaiian islands, if I remember correctly. Ok, question. For example, I make a cube with different layers (magma, crust, water, mountains...

Hey, guys. I have a project comming and I'll have to create and animate (!!!) something like this , this or this . Only prettier. Mountains will have to grow, lava to flow, cunamies to appear and stuff like that. Everything will be showed in a "sliced cube" style, like in a last image, onl...

Worked like a charm!!!! Thanx a lot!
And now you can tell me about that "Wireframe" node of yours

It was already above.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong. How do you animate proportional translation of object's points without using Shape Manager?

One more question though. Everything is colored the way I want, but how to make it work, while using Shape Manager? The ICE Tree and Shape Manager don't like each other.
In this project, I'm simply animating few spikes growing from a single grid, using shape manager.

Thanx, now everything works!
Both links work, by the way ;]

Moderator edit: you're right,I removed my post to avoid confusion.
Seems to be a browser specific issue, another browser: no problem - HB

That's exactly what I need.
But I don't seem to have "Color Attribute to CAV" node.

Hi, guys. Maybe you'll be able to help me. I need to create material, which would color the object, depending on it's height in a gradient style. For example, I have a "mountain" of certain size and it's colored in green. When I make the mountain taller, additional colors start to appear, ...

Hi, guys. So, I've got a little problem I don't know how to fix. Maybe some of you have ran into this one before. Basically I have a material with transparent shader, connected to "Surface" port, and a color mixer node, connected to "Volume" port. When I render everything out, so...

I don't have SI open now, but I think what you're looking for is Stick To Location, and then select Emit Location. Depending what you're trying to achieve, you might wanna use State Machines. Also, maybe try Test Collision (I forget exact name of node) -> If (true = delete particle) ->Execute Weird...

Hey, guys. I've ran into a problem. Basically I have a sphere with particles stuck on it. I need to open that sphere. So either I change Start/End "U/V" values in geometry settings, or just slice it. The problem is - when I animate the opening-up, particles don't respond, they remain in a ...

Thanx, that was very useful!

That's not a great card, the 6 series is a bit crippled compared to more recent versions (or even the older 580 series). I'd look at a 780 if you can stretch to it, or even a titan. Thanx, I'll look into it. How big is the impact of a graphics card in general when working with XSI? What does it exa...

If you're talking about rotating in the viewport, then yes, the graphics card will be the culprit - what have you got at the moment? Not just rotating in viewport. Working in general (like selecting objects, moving them, editing properties etc). Everything is lagging. For the moment I use NVidia Ge...

Hi, guys I have a certain scene with some objects and particles, the usual stuff. It became kinda heavy though. I have to wait quite some time to scrub through timeline or even select objects if the app won't freeze on me. It looks like SoftImage (I'm using 2012) can barely handle the scene, but I c...