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Hello Falam,

The "delete neighbors" is already inside the Instance on curve compound : I have also provided it separately for another use than "Instance on Curve" plugin.

Dayum - I stumbled upon the video on Vimeo. This is such nice work.

A colleague at a clients place made a Unity script to do similar stuff a while back, and it made me wish I could have something similar in XSI. I've previously done a number of racetracks (in v7 days) and back then it was all manual work. Was OK but not as quick or elegant as this solution allows.

Thank you .

It is always good to know that the time spent creating a tool is useful to someone.

Woot!

Nice new features on this one!
Big thanks for sharing this again with the community, much appreciated!

rob

Great plugin! I'm having issues with orientation when I try to instance in a radial pattern. Some of the object orientations are flipped. Is there a simple way to unify orientation?

Hello rmelville,

Thanks and you're right there is an orientation problem on radial pattern.

You can set this branch on your ICE Tree below the instanceOnCurve compound.
You need to know the center position of your radial pattern.

On the example below I create a cluster with center from the points selection of my curve.
And I use its global position. I hope it will help you.

Hello !

Here you can download the InstanceOnCurve_v1.3 :
This version fixes problems with instances orientations especially those on a radial pattern.

Thanks for the 1.3 update. Works beautifully!

Is there a quick way to convert these point cloud instances to poly mesh so they can be exported to different apps?

There are alerady some tools to convert a point cloud to a mesh object :

http://www.si-community.com/community/v ... =15&t=1579 (it's free)
or
LKL Mesher : "Turns any pointcloud into a mesh with control over resolution and instance-meshes." (http://leonardkoch.com/lklightning2-0changelog)

Hi,

with this technique, is it possible to place lights along curves as well? So far, I can't get the compound to pick up on something other than mesh objects or nulls.

-Jasper

Hello,

Yes you can place lights along curves.
It work like other objects, even if lights are displayed with nulls.

I tried and it doesn't work, could that be due to me not using mental ray? I'm rendering with redshift (and using redshift lights).

It's possible but I can't test it now.
Could you test it in mental ray first and then with redshift ?

Hi julca, I'll do a test next week, won't be back at my computer till then. Thanks for the replies.

Hi Julien,

back once more with a question (I hope you still visit this forum...): can your addon also work without creating subcurves/pointclouds first? I have a curve that is extracted from a series of polyislands, so when i run 'instance on curve', I get a whole bunch of subcurves with a pointcloud each. Then, when i want to do further work on the created instances and transfer the result (through Alembic) to Clarisse, I have to first merge all the pointclouds. In my case, it's hundreds of subcurves/pointclouds and I have to do a clone point on each one.

If it would be possible to have just one pointcloud created by your addon that would help me tremendously! Or ofcourse, a way to transfer the data from all of those pointclouds into one efficiently would be great as well.

Thanks,
Jasper