Growing Vine with Strands and ICE

[claudevervoort]

Hi!

I am by no mean an ICE expert, but to push my knowledge a bit further I self imposed a little challenge: build a vine that grows on some geometry. You can see the final result here.

I have gathered the steps I took to get the result in a PDF tutorial, in case you are interested. It can be found here. That's only my take at it and all comments are welcome

Claude

[Hirazi Blue]

Looks interesting! Thanks...

[ace63]

Thank you very much, stuff like this is always great for the community!

[rconover]

Many Thanks Claude!
Any chance you could provide an example scene too?

The pdf is good for the theory-but I find that several of the images isolate the branches of your ICETree a bit too much. And there is nothing showing the Tree complete. So even having some idea what you are saying and having some ICE knowledge (but still learning) I find it a bit tricky to get valid results so far. Even in the early steps.

So I’d imagine an ICE novice should get quite lost. Reverse engineering (a finished scene) can go a long way.

many thanks again



ral

[claudevervoort]

Hi Ral,

That's good feedback

So I quickly assembled the 2 ICE main ICE trees. I've also zipped up the 2010 scene (here) and the leaf quick morph image sequences (here)





I hope this makes it a bit more digestible.

Claude

[B-Maui]

that' s interesting!
if i only had it few weeks ago!!!
thanks to share!

[talent103]

Many Thanks! I will give this a try this week.
John

[Eugen]

Nice tool, thanks or sharing! (took me 4 years to notice = )

[Eugen]

Hi, a question:
I'm trying to pack the vine generator into a model for easy re-use, but the leaves cease to work then (branches are good). Looks like they remain at size 0. If I pull them back out, they grow properly again.
Any idea why? I'm checking all the get data nodes in the ICE tree, but cannot find the reason.
Thanks!
Eugen

[Eugen]

Allow me to give this a bump...

It would be very handy to have this example in a model, so it can be added quickly to a scene.
Problem is, that the leaves point cloud does not work properly any more when it is put into a model. I guess some name space problem.
My ICE knowledge is not profound enough to fix this - I tried.

Many thanks if anybody likes to have a look...
Best,
Eugen

[nikaragua86]

yo raps, man, i`ve found a workaround of this bug - you pack the stuff into model, export it, then you open the scene that you want, import the model, and get the pointcloud_leaves out of the model into the scene root (or simply take all stuff out of the model into the scene root) - it works fine for me, write if you will(will not) succeed )))))

[Eugen]

Hi, thanks! That's what I'm going to do as plan B... = )
Best,
Eugen