[druitres]

Hello,

I'm trying to render an animation with ICE particles set to instanced geometry, but all I get to see (in FIRE and in Studio) is one instance. Is there a setting/property I have to apply to either the ICEtree or the instanced geometry before Maxwell sees it?

(V 2.7.20, plugin 2.7.7)

[Mihai]

You used an instance shape node for the particles? I don't think selecting an instance works correctly by the looks of it, but you can select the geometry instead - they will become instances when emitted by the particle system and Maxwell can render them as instances too. Or, if you have a Model with a bunch of real geometry under it, you can also select the Model in the instance shape node and that will work too.

[druitres]

Hi Mihai,

nope, I'm using the geometry itself, not an instance. I did some testing and now I have this quite absurd solution - it works as long as the emitter (emit from geometry - surface) is set to a number of particles per second higher than 73. At 73, only 1 particle is rendered, at 74, all of them are there.

Could you check this to see if you get the same result?

I cant get to my server atm, I'll upload an example tonight if needed.

[Mihai]

Ok, send me the scene if you can, it works fine here...

[druitres]

Okay, here it is - tested at work (2012) and at home (2013) with same results. Only starts to render at above 73 p/p/s.

http://filetransfer.snackbardesiree.com ... t73-74.rar

thanks for testing,
Jasper

[Mihai]

It works fine here....I changed to 2 pps, tried others, and they render ok.



Which plugin version are you using? You can check from preferences>Custom>Maxwell

[druitres]

2.7.7

[Mihai]

Well, then I don't know what's going on....have you tried as a test a brand new scene, simple emitter with instances to check?

[mixepix]

I just got the exact same problem in one of my scenes. Did you solve it?

cheers

[mixepix]

Never mind, solved it. In my case it was a cached point cloud that didn't work but by initialize the particle attributes in a new ICE-tree everything rendered out just fine.

[druitres]

Ah, sorry for never getting back - it turned out I was using the 2013 addon in 2012 SI. 2012 addon in 2012 works correct.

[Mihai]

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