Maya Particles.. My thoughts. 2005-05-06 - By Aloys Baillet
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And if you apply a compiled operator on a particle cloud, the ParticleOp is
automatically removed from the stack... Really bad...
On 5/6/05, kim aldis <kim@(protected)> wrote:
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> > From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> > [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Andre DeAngelis
> > Sent: 05 May 2005 20:24
> > To: XSI@(protected)
> > Subject: RE: Maya Particles.. My thoughts.
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> > From my limited understanding of scripting, and some comment
> > I've read from Kim Aldis, there are limitations with particle
> > scripting in XSI.
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> > It would be nice to apply scripted ops to particles but at
> > this stage, this doesn't appear to be possible. Scripted
> > events are the only option we really have to control particle
> > behaviour but even then, you run the risk of dependancy cycles.
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> You can, in fact, apply scripted ops to particles but they're quite
> limited
> for applying forces because the op is applied to the base dynamics at each
> frame but discarded from the cache. The upshot of this is that your
> changes
> to position are lost at each iteration and that's not what you want for
> forces. If it weren't or that, scripted ops would be perfectly valid for
> building custom forces. On the other hand, scripted events don't suffer
> from
> this limitation but, as you say, you run the risk of cycles and there's no
> good, easy mechanism for introducing other objects into the event; they
> have
> to be hard-coded into the event. So near and yet so far.
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Aloys Baillet - Character TD @ Animal Logic
And if you apply a compiled operator on a particle cloud, the
ParticleOp is automatically removed from the stack... Really bad...<br><br><div
><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">kim aldis</b>
<<a href="mailto:kim@(protected)">kim@(protected)</a>> wrote:
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204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>> ----
-Original Message-- --<br>> From: <a href="mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)">
owner-xsi@(protected)</a><br>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)
.COM">owner-xsi@(protected)</a>] On Behalf Of Andre DeAngelis<br>> Sent: 05
May 2005 20:24<br>> To: <a href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">
XSI@(protected)</a><br>> Subject: RE: Maya Particles.. My thoughts.<br>>
;<br>> From my limited understanding of scripting, and some comment<br>> I
've read from Kim Aldis, there are limitations with particle<br>
> scripting in XSI.<br>><br>> It would be nice to apply scripted ops
to particles but at<br>> this stage, this doesn't appear to be possible.
Scripted<br>> events are the only option we really have to control particle
<br>> behaviour but even then, you run the risk of dependancy cycles.<br>>
;<br><br>You can, in fact, apply scripted ops to particles but they're quite
limited<br>for applying forces because the op is applied to the base dynamics
at each
<br>frame but discarded from the cache. The upshot of this is that your changes
<br>to position are lost at each iteration and that's not what you want for<br
>forces. If it weren't or that, scripted ops would be perfectly valid for
<br>building custom forces. On the other hand, scripted events don't suffer
from<br>this limitation but, as you say, you run the risk of cycles and there's
no<br>good, easy mechanism for introducing other objects into the event; they
have
<br>to be hard-coded into the event. So near and yet so far.<br><br>---<br
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</div><br><br><br>-- <br>Aloys Baillet - Character TD @ Animal Logic
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