Subject: Re: Particles and curves.... 2003-12-17 - By Aleksandar Stiglic
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Not certain what you are trying to achive,
but particle tail is in direction of its movement, from frame to frame.
So your particles have to go follow.
Maybe object which would be on the curve as a particle goal,
while other lower down the curve would emit particles.
Hope this helps...
Al
Gustavo Braga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I?m trying to figure out how to make particles follow a curve. Like the
> example in ?Mel Scripting for Maya Animators? I?m using the pointOnCurve
> command to find the particle?s position in the curve by it?s age.
> float $pos[] = `pointOnCurve -pr (particleShape1.age) -p curve1`;
>
> This is working very well. But my problem is that I need that my streak
> particles to face in the direction of the curve. The tails should be
> aligned with the curve, similar to the ?follow? option when you do a
> motion path. Using an Omni emitter I got particles in all directions,
> changing the type to directional I can change the particle?s inclination
> using the Direction X,Y,Z attributes, but this affects all the
> particles. So I was searching for a Direction PP but it doesn?t exist.
> Am I misunderstanding something?
>
> Thanks for helping?
>
>
> Gustavo Braga
> Conspira??o S/A
> Rio de Janeiro/RJ - Brasil
>
>
>
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