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Nested ICE compound hell
[4 Jul 2010 | 3 Comments | 586 views]
Nested ICE compound hell

Exporting ICE compounds. What could be simpler?

Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. Especially if you forget to tick a certain checkbox…

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Retiming ICE caches
[2 Oct 2009 | 9 Comments | 5,418 views]
Retiming ICE caches

A complete guide to retiming particles in ICE.

The techniques discussed in this article were used for Sky Sports’ “Super Sunday” television ident at The Mill, earlier this year.

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Forcing ICE attributes to cache
[11 Jul 2009 | 4 Comments | 2,090 views]
Forcing ICE attributes to cache

How many times have you tried to cache out data in XSI’s ICE and found that your custom attributes have disappeared?

Check out this post for a tried and tested method of working around this problem.