• Maxon Cinema 4D

  thinking particles-multi shape emitter

  Posted by Richard Quinn on May 2, 2009 at 4:09 pm

  Hi,

  I wanted to make a bunch of musical notes fly out of a speaker in a random way.

  I thought that the “Thinking Particles – Mulitishape emitter” in the content browser would work.

  There are 4 default shapes – cylinder, cube, cone & sphere. I thought I could swap these out with musical notes.

  I cannot see any shapes when I render, not even the original ones?

  I am a real novice when it comes to particle work. Is there something obvious I am doing wrong? Do I need to change anything in the attributes window or xpresso in order for it to render???

  Cheers,

  Rich

  Brian Jones replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

• 

  Adam Trachtenberg

  May 2, 2009 at 11:01 pm

  You have to add a “Particle Geometry” object to your scene (Objects>Thinking Particles>Particle Geometry).
• 

  Richard Quinn

  May 2, 2009 at 11:52 pm

  Thanks Adam!!!
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  Richard Quinn

  May 3, 2009 at 8:31 pm

  Hi again,

  I got the multi shape to emit musical notes thanks to Adam.

  I have now added a plane object to my scene to act as a deflector for the particles. The musical notes are flying around a room so I would like them to deflect off the walls rather than go through the walls.

  I added a pdeflector node in the xpresso window and assigned my plane to it in the attributes window.

  I have no idea what to connect the pdeflector node to in the xpresso window though?????

  Any help would be great.

  Cheers,

  Rich
• 

  Brian Jones

  May 3, 2009 at 11:30 pm

  Use a P Pass node to pass the generated particles to the PDeflector node

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