ICE performace

#1

Hi! I’m a 3dsmax user learning XSI, and decided to give it a try on ICE. It’s an amazing tool but whenever I try to stick particle to an animated deforming mesh, the performance goes to a crawl. For example, I had a test low poly character point cached, 10k particle locked to the mesh I get around 10fps. It’s odd because in particle flow I get realtime feedback with ~30fps with the same amount of particles.

Is this performance hit normal? What is the best method for locking particles on an animated deforming mesh?

Regards,
Jr.

#2

Try with stick to Surface node, in the surface interaction.

Vlad

#3

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100k particles
ice: 20,5 fps
pflow: 0,7 fps / 3 fps with all frames preview, not realtime

300k particles
ice: 8,3 fps
pflow: 0 fps + max hangs for ~2 minutes after changing number of particles
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#4

Yup that works.
I was trying to do it on another deformed object-via Get Particle Stick Location which wasn’t allowing such a straight forward hook-up.
I was thinking that was what the OP wanted as well…

#5

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