Create Polygon Meshes from Instance Shapes

izze · Post by **izze** » 04 Oct 2012, 15:01

Great compound. Is there any way to export the mesh with UV's?

Thanks,

pylo · Post by **pylo** » 05 Dec 2012, 15:19

i cant get it running poperly.

when comparing the simulation cloud and the polygon cloud you can see that they are noch on the same possition.

grahamef · Post by **grahamef** » 05 Dec 2012, 16:28

pylo wrote:i cant get it running poperly.

when comparing the simulation cloud and the polygon cloud you can see that they are noch on the same possition.

It looks like you've either moved the point cloud or the mesh. Just make sure that everything is at the origin.

pylo · Post by **pylo** » 06 Dec 2012, 08:40

Ok that was the fault... thanks
My compound is still red but it seems to work so far...

Can you also help me with the shading... I cant bring the source shader on the calculated polymesh.

perhapes another tutorial that shows a bit more what you do, to get it working.

grahamef · Post by **grahamef** » 06 Dec 2012, 17:20

pylo wrote:Can you also help me with the shading... I cant bring the source shader on the calculated polymesh.

perhapes another tutorial that shows a bit more what you do, to get it working.

You need to use the ICE attributes Materials and MaterialID to set the materials on the instance masters. Watch the swf file and look at the sample scene to see how it's set up. There's also more info about Materials and MaterialID here: http://download.autodesk.com/global/doc ... d30e297728

j3st3r · Post by **j3st3r** » 18 Sep 2013, 07:02

Hi

I have an issue with this stuff. I tried to use it with Instance on Curve addon, and when I adjust parameters of the delete group, it is reflected well on the generated polymesh. That's the same with random scale parameter in the compound, the generated polymesh became quite different than the pointcloud. Any idea?

will_grello · Post by **will_grello** » 21 Jan 2014, 11:19

@J3st3r I aam having the same issue

bvmadjen · Post by **bvmadjen** » 09 Dec 2021, 20:31

sorry to re-raise a dead topic, but I can't download this file because of a 500 internal server error.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » 10 Dec 2021, 17:48

hello, it's strange that it gives a link to a .zip file when it's actually .rar here is the correct link : http://si-community.com/download/lb/gla ... eShape.rar

M3D · Post by **M3D** » 20 Jan 2025, 13:45

hi guys, hi guillaume,
I hope you can read and answer me,
I'm a softimage user, I will never abandon it!!!!,
I'm very interested in your compound, I created a particle animation with realflow, imported it into softimage, inserted meshes instead of particles (grains of sand) and I want to export the animation to octane render,
octane doesn't read the particles I entered, the only way is to use your compound.
Can you give me instructions on how to use it?
Thank you!!!

scon · Post by **scon** » 20 Jan 2025, 21:46

Can't you just export the meshed cloud as alembic, for octane to render?

M3D · Post by **M3D** » 21 Jan 2025, 08:09

no, octane imports almbic particles but matches them with a standard geometry, a sphere, not the instances

scon · Post by **scon** » 21 Jan 2025, 11:43

Don't export the point cloud, export the meshed cloud. As alembic and geometry only. Have a look at the example scene from guillaume. Plug the pcloud and the instance shape node into it and thats pretty much it. Don't know if you will have much fun meshing and exporting millions of points though.

M3D · Post by **M3D** » 21 Jan 2025, 11:50

Thanks for the advice, but I don't really understand how to do it

M3D · Post by **M3D** » 22 Jan 2025, 15:46

I have a scene where I see leaves, is that the scene?

scon · Post by **scon** » 22 Jan 2025, 18:38

I don't know what you have. The rar file includes one scene. If you have downloaded that file, that's probably the scene.

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