Turn old particle cloud into point cloud?!

[liltbrockie]

Is there a way to turn an old style particle cloud into a new point cloud? Basically im trying to do something with realflow... i have imported the particles... but i want to render them with the new volumetric renderer for particles... but i think you can only apply this volume shader to point clouds..

[scaron]

probably not

but you might be able to copy the motion onto the new ICE particles setup.

see if you can query the old pt cloud in the ICE tree, get the point positions and using the add point node, add points at every frame

steven

[liltbrockie]

any news on importing real flow particles yet? i'll try and have a go later but i suspect its something we need a new real flow plug in for?

[scaron]

plugin would need to be supplied from realflow... in the mean time if you know anyone that wants to write a custom node to read in bin files you might be able to do that.

steven