Shading and shaping particle systems 2004-02-19 - By Michael J. H. Brooks
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Hello Giles:
> Hi guys,
>
> Long time lurker, rare poster, with a cry for help!
>
> I'm fooling around with the particle systems, trying to make a
> stream of stars. The end result is for a still image, so I'm using
> rectangle particles as billboards and the particle sprite plugin to
> get them all facing the camera. When I drag my star shader onto
> them, they all shade as separate objects very nicely.
>
> Now the tricky bit: I want to give the whole thing a cutaway effect -
> basically take out a pie-section of my ring of stars, or at least
> make them invisible. So far I've tried the following:
Assuming you don't want to animate the star ring... While in the "Model"
room have you considered "Edit" -> "Convert to Other Modeler" -> "Vertex
Model" -> "OK" then removing the sections of stars you don't want within the
vertex modeller (i.e. with the lasso select and delete)?
Michael.
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