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Hi Gerbrand...
I did something similar for a crowd-sim. Take your master particle, add
a new event; right click to inspect [make it trigger based on distance
(eg: X Position; also turn it to "emit"] and click "create" under
"Source".
Repeat this until you have as many particles as you want then change
each of the new particles' render properties to sprite and link in your
rgbs.
Take a null and give it an X positional expression like this: RAND( 12,
1, 15 ) where 12 is a seed and 15 is the number of new particle triggers
you've created. Then set an expression on the "Mute" parameter for each
of the PEvents with something like:
1 - null.kine.global.posx [PEvent1]
2 - null.kine.global.posx [PEvent2]
3 - null.kine.global.posx [PEvent3]
4 - null.kine.global.posx [PEvent4]
5 - null.kine.global.posx [PEvent5]
...
15 - null.kine.global.posx [PEvent15]
This will control which particle gets released at that given point in
distance that you set earlier.
Hope this gets you there.
Keith
-- --Original Message-- --
From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf
Of gerbrand
Sent: 06 April 2004 12:26
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: multiple sprites on one particle type
I would like to link multiple sprites to one particle type, or make one
event emit multiple particle types at random. anny ideas??,
Thanx
Gerbrand
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<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi
Gerbrand...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I did
something similar for a crowd-sim. Take your master particle, add a new event;
right click to inspect [make it trigger based on distance (eg: X Position; also
turn it to "emit"] and click "create" under "Source".</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2
>Repeat
this until you have as many particles as you want then change each of the new
particles' render properties to sprite and link in your
rgbs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Take
a
null and give it an X positional expression like this: <FONT
size=2><STRONG>RAND( 12, 1, 15 )</STRONG> where 12 is a seed and 15 is the
number of new particle triggers you've created. Then set an expression on the
"Mute" parameter for each of the PEvents with something
like:</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>1 - null.kine.global.posx
[PEvent1]
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>2 - null.kine.global.posx
[PEvent2]
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>3 - null.kine.global.posx
[PEvent3]
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>4 - null.kine.global.posx
[PEvent4]
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>5 - null.kine.global.posx
[PEvent5]</FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT><
/SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=656151909-19042004></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>15 -
null.kine.global.posx
[PEvent15]</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This
will control which particle gets released at that given point in distance that
you set earlier.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hope
this gets you there.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Keith</FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=656151909-19042004><B></DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=656151909-19042004></SPAN></FONT> </P></B></SPAN>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-- --Original Message-- --<BR><B>From:</B>
owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>gerbrand<BR><B>Sent:</B> 06 April 2004 12:26<BR><B>To:</B>
XSI@(protected)<BR><B>Subject:</B> multiple sprites on one particle
type<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to link multiple sprites to one
particle type, or make one event emit multiple particle types at random. anny
ideas??, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanx</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gerbrand</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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