Particle direction 2004-06-21 - By Jean-Paul LeDoux
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What about goals over attractors?
Jean-Paul LeDoux
Northwest Imaging & FX
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From: "peterb" <peter_b@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: Particle direction
> Hey Hans,
>
> take a look at:
> http://www.sukio.de/resources.htm
>
> you ll find cool stuff along with the "plot particles script"
> this will generate you a bunch of curves, from all your particles.
>
> That should get you going...
>
> You could consider animating backwards:
> emit particles from your target, to fly off, generate the paths and use
them
> backwards.
> This ll probably look better than fiddling with attractors.
>
>
> > Hi Francis,
> >
> > Okay, I noticed that the instancing feature did not inherit the
> directional constraint of the objects. So if I use objects without the
> instancing method, how can I attach them to the cloud? Constraint each
arrow
> to a single particle?
> >
> > cheers
> > hans
> >
> > At 18 06 2004-15:51 Francois Lord wrote:
> > >Yes, I think particles would be the way to go. You can attach objects
to
> particles and tell each particle to "look" where they're going. Then if
the
> particles stop and they don't look in the right direction, you could blend
> in a direction constraint on the objects. For this you would need to use
> real objects constrained to the particles, not using the particle
instancing
> feature.
> > >
> > >--
> > >Flord
> > >
> > >
> > >Comic House wrote:
> > >
> > >>Hi,
> > >>
> > >>For a tv ad I'm working on a group of hundreds of little mouse arrows
> that should flock together and in the end all point towards the same
> direction, much like sperms around an egg cel. I suspect the best way to
> control such a large group of objects is to attach the arrow objects to a
> particle cloud. Do you guys agree? And if so, is there a way to make all
the
> particles look in the same direction (=centre screen)?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>grtz
> > >>hans
> > >>
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