"emTopolizer v.1.00 - Walk Through".

A walk through the features and functionality of this new Softimage|ICE plugin.

• starting at 00:00 > "Introduction".
• starting at 01:22 > "Concept of emTopolizer (Geometry Core)".
• starting at 04:14 > "A first simple example".
• starting at 08:44 > "A more elaborate example".
• starting at 11:20 > "What else can emTopolizer do?".
• starting at 11:53 > "The new ICE polygonizer, geometry caching".
• starting at 20:41 > "The UVW Engineer.

emTopolizer is a Softimage ICE plugin for creating, accessing and manipulating geometry within ICE.

The plugin consists of an Addon that contains a "DLL" file (Windows) or "so" file (Linux) for the custom ICE node (compiled C++ code for 64 bit versions of Softimage) and many ICE compounds.

Feature list of emTopolizer:

• high speed geometry caching
  Reads and writes polygon meshes via a single ICE compound preset or via the "Geometry Reader/Writer" operators.
  Currently supported formats:
  • .mzd (native format, compatible with emPoylgonizer v.4).
  • .emp2 (native format, compatible with Softimage's built-in Polygonizer and version 2, 3 and 4 of emPoylgonizer).
  • .obj (Wavefront's ASCII format, compatible with all 3D packages).
  • .bin (RealFlow's binary geometry format, compatible with Maya and 3ds Max).


• high performance polygonizer within ICE
  The brand new multithreaded meshing core with a new memory management (ridiculously small memory usage whatever you are meshing).


• UVW Engineer
  A highly versatile texture coordinate creation tool designed to create UVs for geometry sequences with changing topology, typically meshed liquid simulations coming either directly from polygonizer or from a cached geometry file sequence (e.g. RealFlow meshes).


• Vertex Islands / Polygon Islands
  Access to vertex/polygon island data in linear time. Combine this with the "Vertex Island" tool of the freeware addon emTools to animate and control vertex islands via an ordinary point cloud.


• Thickenizer
  Apply some thickness to a polygon mesh, no matter how heavy.


• Shatterizer
  Disconnect and extrude the polygons whilst preserving the UVs, normals and vertex colors.


• The "Geometry Free Reader"
  A free geometry reader compound, good when throwing some scenes onto the farm that use cached geometry.


• Many further little high speed goodies
  Fix non-manifold edges, quadrangule, apply a special liquid mesh smoothing, sort vertices and polygons, blur normals, blur UVs, blur colors, close holes in a mesh, etc.