Expand the strand.

[Letterbox]

Hi,

I'd been looking at strands and see that you can use point,segment,disc,rectangle etc. as the type.

And a thought occurred to me, is it possible to use custom geometry to be the strand shape.
As if it is possible it would open up some very interesting opportunities.

Cheers
Terry

PS if it is... how

[josh1971]

Hi

I am currently trying to do just that...if I have any luck , I will post a solution

[danko]

This is quite a simple solution to the problem, no custom nodes or anything else (still a ICE noob ), but could do the job...using the spawn trails compound to create another state of particles, that can be controlled via the state machine node to give them instances different from the main ones. tha spawn trails settings done like in the image to have the particle stick at their emission point and to be generated with a costant rate

[CiaranM]

Hi,
you can use custom geometry along the strand, but not directly in ICE. Helge Mathee wrote a plugin that does this (it was on SI|Community forum). I think he uses a custom geometry operator to extrude a mesh along the strand.

[Letterbox]

Hi,
you can use custom geometry along the strand, but not directly in ICE. Helge Mathee wrote a plugin that does this (it was on SI|Community forum). I think he uses a custom geometry operator to extrude a mesh along the strand.

Hey Super D, chow Bella


CiaranM, any chance you remember the name, because you cant search by name, everyone's name is "the area", migration !


UPDATE: After going thru 22 pages - Hopefully Helge or AD will read this, as none of his work seems to have been migrated. ???

[Mathaeus]

You can find it here

Anyway, it creates tubes an stripes only, without UVs - you'll need another ICE compound for UVs.

[Letterbox]

You can find it here

Anyway, it creates tubes an stripes only, without UVs - you'll need another ICE compound for UVs.

Hi Mathaeus,

You beat me to it, i was going to update that on 'the area' his plugins are NOT in the downloads, but rather in the links in the copy of the message.

Just in case any one else wonders...