Could you make a cool feather system in ICE

[Pete]

Hi there,
Sorry if the whole "can ya do this or that" is annoying but I couldn't help it :) I was just thinking, would it be possible to make a bit of a feather system with ICE? I know it cannot generate geometry as such but maybe you could make a particle system or something with instanced geometry and control the position size and orientation with weight or tangecy maps or something?
I tried doing something like this with XSI hair but I found there wasn't enough control or feedback.
Pete

[ThE_JacO]

yes, definitely possible.

[mocaw]

There was an example of one system that was scripted put on XSIblog. I'm wishing that either I can figure out how to get it going in ICE...or (fingers crossed) someone will beat us all to it AND share it.

http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/33

Half of the compounds I've seen demonstrated so far have me thinking that some of the work is already done for us...

[redmotion]

There was an example of one system that was scripted put on XSIblog. I'm wishing that either I can figure out how to get it going in ICE...or (fingers crossed) someone will beat us all to it AND share it.

http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/33

Half of the compounds I've seen demonstrated so far have me thinking that some of the work is already done for us...

I loved that example. Yeah, I'm pretty confident there will be something equal to that using ICE within days of its release.

[Pete]

Yeah, I saw that on XSI blog but it was a bit beyond me. Looked cool though.
I'm hanging for this release!