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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)

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.

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.

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

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

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

2.7.7

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?

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

cheers

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.

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

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