• Boris FX Particle Illusion

  Newcomer’s question for Alan or anyone

  Posted by Opusguy on June 1, 2006 at 1:24 pm

  Hi Guys,
  Just bought P.I SE and of course, don’t know anything about it. My questions are . .
  1. When I change an emitter to my own liking, the next time I come back to the program, will that emitter always be portrayed as the ” changed ” version ? I guess what I’m trying to explain, is, how am I able, always, to retain the ” original/default ” way it looked ? By saving my ” creation ” at the time,as something else,does that ” preserve ” the DEFAULT way it looked ? Or do I have to make extra copies of emitters, just to save them as something else, thus leaving the default versions intact ?
  2. If I load all the downloaded emitters into another directory, NOT where the program sits, will that help to keep the rendering speeds good ?

  I think I’m gonna enjoy this program,once I get off the ground a little !!

  Thanks Guys

  Opusguy replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Alan Lorence

  June 1, 2006 at 3:42 pm

  My tip for everybody is to never change the library emitters unless you know you’ll never want the original. The way I modify emitters is to add them to the stage first, then modify them there (r-click on the stage emitter and select “properties” — don’t edit the properties for the library emitter). When I have something I want to keep, I use “Add to Library” to do just that.

  The location of the library files has no effect on rendering speed.

  Alan.
  wondertouch
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  Opusguy

  June 1, 2006 at 9:25 pm

  Thanks Alan. Now I know how to go about things.

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