PhysX Fluid Simulation in Softimage ICE

[whurst]

Hi there,

i've made a test scene for some experiments and finally a vid ofcause

Windows 7 64bit - SoftImage|XSI 2012 SP1 64bit - GTX680 - Latest Drivers



But i've some wired random crashes from the nvidia display driver. So i can't complete this with 7,8 million particles damn ... Maybe someone else can download the scene and test with another workstation config too see it's just me

Moderator edit: just to clarify - link to scene is included on the Vimeo page. Press "vimeo" in the lower right corner of the embedded video to get there - HB

[Bobby Boston]

I'm having the same problem that perryharovas was having. After setting everything up I get [PX][SPH]: Get CUDA Support Failed. I went into the NVIDIA control panel and set my PhysX processor to my Quadro 600. Any thoughts on why I might not be able to get the CUDA connection in SI? As far as I can tell my workgroup and plugin are connected correctly and I have a newer version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) than linked to on this board.

Thanks

[frosty3907]

Can this do static friction, no slip?

[gitarrenvogel]

Hey, this looks very interesting, but it doesn't work at my computer. I get this message: // INFO : ICE PHYSX SPH: Succefully created PxWorld! - but the emit compound and the simulate fluid compounds in the pointclouds ICE-tree both are red.
I'm on Windows 7 and Softimage 2014 64-bit and a newer version of the C++ from your link. Am I doing something wrong, or is this not compatible?

Cheers Lukas

[Mr.Core]

2014 simage seems to introduce some backward compatability changes in SDK, i will recompile libs soon to see if it is the problem or something else

[gitarrenvogel]

that was quick - thank you

[Mr.Core]

I simply get a notifications on my email from all my threads

[druitre]

Hello mr Core, I think this may be related: I haven't been abe to get the PhysX compounds to work on the GPU ("CUDA support failed!") since I started on the Redshift alpha (in march). Redshift uses CUDA so I also updated all drivers and CUDA-related stuff and maybe some other stuff as well at that point, hence maybe compatibility problems somewhere? That was on 2013SP1, and I still have the same problem on 2014 & 2014 SP1.

Hope this helps, Jasper

[gitarrenvogel]

Yeah, I'm also a Redshift-alpha-tester. Maybe that could be the problem.

[mixepix]

Has anyone figured out the "CUDA support failed!"-thing yet? I tried it today and have the same issue. Pretty fast even without the GPU-acceleration though.

[clankill3r]

Mr. Core this looks really amazing!
I just ordered a new pc so i could render stuff with redshift. Looking into it i saw the video card i ordered had physx support and i wondered if lagoa did and i ended up here. Can't wait to try it out.

And maybe it's an idea to get acces to the redshift alpha as well.

[druitre]

If you manage to get the physx plugin to work on a system with redshift installed, please let me know. I haven't been able to use the gpu-accelerated physx since beginning of this year (since starting redshift alpha). It could be there is some Cudarelated conflict.

(Btw, don't be fooled by the relative speed of low count sims on the cpu, once you hit the millions of particles it really starts to crawl whereas on the gpu it just blazes along. Look for the 'CUDA: PhysX World created successfully!' message in the xsi message bar.)

[elhemp]

First of all many thanks for this compound. It's a huge timesaver and great fun to work with.

I have several SPH simulations in one scene and get the following error when more then one sim is active:

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# ERROR : [PX][INTERNAL]:Foundation object exists already. Only one instance per process can be created.
# ERROR : [PX][SPH]: Unable to create Foundation!
# ERROR : [PX][SPH]: Unable to fill-in out positions

Is there a solution without restarting Si everytime I want to simulate another tree?

[clankill3r]

Seems like Mr.Core is no longer with us

I wondered, could it be that lagoa in future will support physx? Or is this not possible by the way how lagoa is constructed?
Hope someone knows.

[Bullit]

I don't think Lagoa will ever be developed anymore. It was a child of Thiago Costa.

[clankill3r]

yeah i know.
I mailed him, hope he replies.