Yes, ICE does not work with passes just yet. normally in these kind of situations I have a live simulated point cloud 'master' which is then cached with Animate>Tools>Plot>Write geometry cache then any different passes can have their own associated cached point clouds with different particles / mate...

yeah I know and empathize with your frustrations. We just have to accept the loss of a great site and try to move forward. hence your post !

I think this site is great and try and visit it often, there nothing obviously wrong, it is just the extra 'voices' that are missing - IMO the shellshock or post traumatic stress of the previous Softimage community site being butchered takes time to heal. As the proverb goes 'once bitten, twice shy'...

of course! that is what an 'override' is for

Hi Mootzoid,

Well .PC2 would be the obvious choice being a format both ICE & KP_Pointcache uses. not sure if it supports meshes that change polycount per frame though.

Excellent, that's a huge improvement with that 2nd SPH video. well done!

Hi Owei this looks promising - finally a metaballs mesh solver that works with ICE. I'm a little concerned, it still looks very similar to the default blobs output that is built in with Softimage ICE particles at the moment. Are there any plans to advance the surface mesh solution? Michele Sandroni'...

This is great, Its already a vast improvement of user and readability to the AUTODESK butchered community site. and in much less time too. Gonna upload my weightmap ICE Compounds when ive got some time later, the ones that have been up on the old Community site for over a year but Autodesk still hav...