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High-performance multi-material continuum physics engine in Taichi
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New node logic #41

Closed PavelBlend closed 4 years ago

PavelBlend commented 4 years ago

I redid the logic of collecting information from nodes. Fixed errors in the organization of the code. And most importantly, what it gave is the ability to load an arbitrary cache in this way (using a single node): 01 To create a mesh and particle system, you need these nodes: 02

PavelBlend commented 4 years ago

In general, in a blender, the nodes of the node system are output nodes. I was the main Simulate node in our system (and this is not correct, since it is not an output node). And further: The simulate button has been moved to the title bar of the node window. 03

yuanming-hu commented 4 years ago

Great! If I understand correctly, the particle_mesh node is for caching the meshes used as geometry for particle seeding?

The simulate button has been moved to the title bar of the node window.

Cool! It looks good to have simulate together with render :-)

PavelBlend commented 4 years ago

If I understand correctly, the particle_mesh node is for caching the meshes used as geometry for particle seeding?

no. To save particles to the cache, the Disk Cache node is used. And the Particle Mesh node only imports particle data from the cache into the scene in the form of an object mesh (which has only vertices). And the particle system node imports data from the cache as a standard particle blender system.

That is, the particle mesh node and the particle system node simply import data from the already baked cache. And these nodes can work without other nodes. That is, they can be alone and import any cache from another scene.

yuanming-hu commented 4 years ago

I see. Thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize we only use the vertices of a particle mesh :-)