transferring state id from soft to maya via ncache or equivalent.

[Adam Sale]

Hey guys.. wondering if state id is supported over in maya. when sending ice scenes over.  I've been looking around, and it doesn't appear to be the case, just wanted to check here before embarking on a mission of futility. I know the attribute can be cached over, however, once there, I'm not sure whether i can actually use it, for assigning different shaders. 

I guess if not, I guess the next best thing would be to clone/spawn into a new cloud to send multiple clouds over to Maya, and then assign per cloud shaders from there.. 

Does that sound about right?

Is there anything else I should be aware of for those of you who have done this?

Thanks all.. 

Adam

[Adam Sale]

thought I would bring this back up again, in case anyone missed the original post. 

Any takers.. 

Am I right in thinking the best way to approach this is the multi cloud approach?

[Grahame Fuller]

If you can get the attribute over to Maya, then I believe that you should be able to use a Utilities/Particle Sampler node to get its value and drive stuff in the Hypershade view. However I haven't had a chance to test this fully.

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thought I would bring this back up again, in case anyone missed the original post.
Any takers..
Am I right in thinking the best way to approach this is the multi cloud approach?

[Ben Houston]

Fury 2 has a ICE cache loader node that works in Maya. We are going
to expand it to handle loading IDs into Maya if they exist in the ICE
Cache.
-ben

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[Adam Sale]

thanks for that.. Grahame :)

And very interesting to consider with Fury 2 Ben..

Cheers Guys,,

Adam

[Leo Quensel]

Note that you can transfer over attributes via ncache but you have to create the particle attribute in maya BEFORE loading the cache.
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