ICE tip #5988 - uv to location

[rray]

Now that the "reinterpret geometry" bug is fixed, this method works nicely for looking up locations from UV on poly objects:

* have an object with uvs ready (get->lizard)
* create a copy, use ICE to move each point to its uv coordinate (for example using uvmorph compound)
* lookup closest location on uv morphed copy, reinterpret back to original



(the attached scene additionally "explodes" the uvs into uv islands)

[rray]

I'm wondering whether this can be done with 1 mesh only, with 2 ice trees

[rray]

Of course that's possible ;)
Not only "Set Data" can be used on other objects than "self" - also "Add Point" !
This way the evaluation order of the two stacks can be nicely controlled.

all in 1 ICE Tree on the Lizard mesh:

* save topology, disconnect uv islands
* morph to uv
* add points on pointcloud at morphed locations using closest locations
* morph back to original positions
* move pointcloud's points to emit locations
* restore topology

reinterpret not even needed

[anhungxadieu]

Of course that's possible ;)
Not only "Set Data" can be used on other objects than "self" - also "Add Point" !
This way the evaluation order of the two stacks can be nicely controlled.

all in 1 ICE Tree on the Lizard mesh:

* save topology, disconnect uv islands
* morph to uv
* add points on pointcloud at morphed locations using closest locations
* morph back to original positions
* move pointcloud's points to emit locations
* restore topology

reinterpret not even needed

hi,
Can you share this scene? thank you!

[rray]

Thanks for your interest anhungxadieu, will do that tomorrow

[rray]

If you don't need the old topology back, you can skip the extra closest lookup in the end

[anhungxadieu]

hi rray,

thank you!

[gaboraa]

Thank you, it is great to learn how to do that!

[rray]

you're welcome - btw the ICE tree on the lizard can be frozen if the uv's don't need to be changed later