come on... they are doing this on porpouse, right? right?

What I would do in that situation is increase the framerate by some factor (say 2x) and then write cache only for other frame (with the ice caching node).
I have tested this when filing some bugs to AD, but never used in real production to be honest...

It is a bit unclear, are you talking about writing or reading your sim?

By default SI will keep the keyframes at the secconds where they are. You can change this behaviour at Playback Options (under in secconds/in frames).

lol, might as well use Maya if one likes icons so much

Arnold doesnt have a transparency from alpha checkbox like regular SI shaders. Therefore you should create a new image (you can plug it to the same texture node) and enably "Alpha to RGB" option, than use that for opacity...

If you DONT want to use HQV double click your material node and under the "OpenGL" display tab select the "use alpha as mask option".

In the example below you see this working on a simple constant shader with a noIcon image, which has alpha...

Well I guess that is not the reason for the slowdowns then. It was the only thing I coyld think of, sorry.

Use the plugin manager and under workgroups check the paths to which you r connected.

Do you have any plugin workgroup set to a network address?

proper top row with history would be great, other then that I dont miss much features... of course it is always great to be safe and rely on tech that is activily developed and supported, I am all for that, will contribute to the tip jar in case it is needed to make it happen. No experience with php...

good catch Rork

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Here is a comparisson. Noslip is suttle since it is most relevant at the moment of collision. At 6 some particles will slide to the sides making room for other particles, at 0 they tend to stay inplace until pushed aside. Difference to sim without static and no slip is very clear.

Not in front of SI. Does your material have inelastics on?

edit: correction should work even with inelastics off in your material

"big things have small begginings" now seriously, dont give up just yet, a bit more communication (top row image + maybe some tweets and such) might help. [OT] going into the future I would not constraint this to modelling only challenges... as this forum does not have massive amounts of m...

Static friction and no-slip work. Do you have the correct properties set on your collision object? If not, do this: 1. Select the object 2. Under the ICE module (default keymapping: 4) Particles > Collision > Lagoa Particles > Set Collision Data This will create a new ICEtree in your collision objec...