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Video Tutorial: Getting ICE Particles into Maya

Here's a video tutorial on how you can get your Softimage ICE particle simulations into Maya!

Posted: Jan 18, 2010

Published by: Mark Schoennagel

Users comments (8)

	Posted by XS52 on Jan 10, 2011 at 08:21 AM
does this conversion work on nparticles... i came across a caching process in soft 2011 , which has a nmesh cache output in soft , which writes out caches as xml / mcc files from soft to maya... but when i tried to read thoes caches in maya .. dud... nothing happens.. any answers... on how to get this working...?

	Posted by Cadmium77 on Feb 16, 2010 at 09:35 PM
That's awesome. thanks for sharing.

	Posted by S Jang on Feb 05, 2010 at 07:18 PM
that's very useful!

	Posted by andymac on Jan 25, 2010 at 06:48 AM
This is really really useful - Well Done! What would be even more useful in future versions would be to: - Take .pdc caches generated from Maya back into ICE/Xsi. - Support for Maya nCaches (.mc/.xml format) rather than .pdc which would open up a whole range of other possibilities! Good stuff! :-)

	Posted by Mark Schoennagel on Jan 23, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Thanks StefanA for your recompile! Most appreciated. As I mentioned at the moment this is one of those unsupported tools which doesnt have support for all platforms yet. We are working on this though and you'll see some huge interop improvements in the future. morando, I'll see if I can find an answer to your question. I know Soft will pass all sorts of other information if you initialize that parameter in Maya first...things like Size, Color etc... orientations too maybe? I'll see what info I can find and pass along.

	Posted by morlando on Jan 22, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Oh man, thank you so much, it works great. One question though, I set the particles type to streak in Maya after the Softimage export and the particle orientations are random and not following the Softimage setup, is there a way to set the particle orientations to follow like in Softimage? I hope you post more videos like this, I've been a Softimage user for several years now and we use mostly Maya at work but I would love to do more things in Softimage and export them into Maya, best of both worlds kind of thing or at least have a way to match the cameras exactly from Maya to Softimage and viceversa so I can render in each package and have everything match in comp. Softimage is a great package and would love to integrate it more into our pipeline in the future. Thanks for posting this.

	Posted by StefanA on Jan 22, 2010 at 09:28 AM
For a linux64 "PAL" version of this plugin you can download that on my site sanders3d.blogspot.com/

	Posted by Adib Souly on Jan 22, 2010 at 04:01 AM
excellent post! thank you!