is there a way to create metaballs on a point cloud in XSI 7? the 2 third party solutions I found (pwrapper, metaballs v2) do not work at the moment as far as I can tell. blobs in ice will not work as I’m looking for a solution that will create geometry.

Regards

T

assuming you want fluid like effect and assuming you have a license of realflow, you can use the .pdc export that comes with xsi then in realflow load the .pdc files, mesh them, and export the bin mesh into xsi 7.

steven

I should have mentioned that the particle simulation is from ice. can I export that as a .pdc file? I have pc2 and .icecache as an option.

The realflow solution should work if I’m able to export the ice point cloud as a .pdc, thank you for the suggestion!

T

loook up the SDK example workgroup. there is a PDC_Export.dll which you can install.

It’s been a while since this thread was created, but by now there is an extremely nice metaball compound done by Eric Mootz. You can find it at:

http://www.mootzoid.com/html/XsiCorner/emPolygonizer.html

It is not for free though. But there is a demo version to test if it fits.