ICE merge meshes?

[Eric Cosky]

Hi,

 

Is there an ICE compound out there that provides the ability to merge meshes with UVs, pulling the set of meshes to merge from a group that I can add/remove meshes from at any time? I’m finding myself wishing that the built in “merge meshes” command had “add selected”, “remove selected” and “select inputs” commands/buttons but an ICE solution for simple merging with UVs would be good enough for me.

 

I’m not sure how exactly I would set that up myself but I think it can be done so I thought I’d ask around. Any tips or suggestions appreciated, thanks.

 

Eric Cosky

 

[Vincent Ullmann]

Merging Meshes with ICE could be easily done like this:

(See screenshot)

The Problem may be merging the UVs... the Build in "Merge Texture Projections"-Compund didnt work in my quick Test. So i did another try... but this seems also to fail.

(Maybe Fabricio Chamon's " "Bake ICE UVs Script" could help)

(http://iceduous.blogspot.de/p/ice-compounds-plugins.html)

[Vincent Ullmann]

Seems like you ust have to "subtract" the own kine.global to get the ""closestLocation-Node" to Work..

[Ciaran Moloney]

No need for all that. Just use the 'Merge texture projections' compound and it'll merge the desired projections into an ICE UVs attribute.

[Martin]

It may not be what you want but until you find a working ICE version you could try this:

https://vimeo.com/44115056 

A simple addon I wrote in JScript and use a lot. It works pretty fine with envelopes and uvs. Not so much with shape animation.

M.Yara

[Eric Cosky]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.