Hi,
are you sure that's the event you want to use? siOnBeginFrame is fired when a frame begins to render. Maybe you should try siOnTimeChange which fires whenever the timeline changes?

, basically i just wanted all my controls in one place and not numerous boxes open that controlled several different key things. If you want all the controls on one place , then you can just expose them all on a single compound and everything you need will be available. It might get a little bit un...

It's pretty annoying, but make sure you hit 'refresh' on the preset browser after installing the addon. Otherwise the compounds will not show up.

Nothing smart that I know, except the standard method to use as much more of standard lights, or blurred environment images. This seems to be the same recipe everywhere.... I guess because standard light gives an wide uniform signal, instead of 'dots'. Yeah, I've been using area lights for my tests...

Nice renders.
As for multi-bounce photons, they look great. But, I have a hard time reducing flickering in animation. I'm not sure which parameter is the key to reducing flickering (global shading rate, GI shading rate, num photons...). Any ideas?

Again I managed to miss some versions, as well as at least start of out-of the-box point based glossy reflections. Now these reflections are a bit limited, following the MIA 'highlight only' way. Time to fire up XSI... Actually, they're proper point based glossy reflections, not just highlights. Th...

I didn't think it was possible to apply ICE ops in branch mode....

this_model

What I don't know is why it's so much more expensive in Europe than in the US?

Looking good!

Thanks for the tips!

Hi, you're doing this with a simulated ICE tree right? The setup in the manual is designed for that (see the simulate node). The technique you've ended up with will work just fine for non-simulated stuff, but it might be more efficient to do it in a simulated tree since then you can make sure that a...

Here's a little plugin to help speedup the workflow of bringing ICE or PC2 caches into a scene. - Simply drag and drop cache files into your scene and the pointcloud and cache nodes will be automatically created. - Use keyboard modifiers to append multiple cache files together, or to existing scene ...

Nice, thanks!

Hi,
you can do this very easily with Momentum 2.0. The geometry can even be deforming etc.

Here's a compound that might be useful. CM_Membrane.1.25.zip It uses several of the techniques describe previously to push particles apart until they're more evenly distributed. In your case you should apply this to a non-simulated ICE tree. The most important controls are: Simulation state - non-si...