Dandelion seeds blowing away in the wind

[John Hammond]

Hi,

I have been learning Thinking Particles recently. With it you can set a particle (say, a petal) to emit from a spline (your flower’s circle that the hair currently is attached to).

You could have the petals born on frame one, then on frame two have the birth stop. Have zero speed on the particles, and life set to maximum. So they just stay put.

Then with thinking particles Wind node, blow them away from the petal by animating wind strength from zero to whatever.

Not sure if this would work and I certainly haven’t tried a set up quite like this.

There may be other options using Hair, or MoGraph ..so I’s hold up and see what others say.

Good luck

[Ryan Steiner]

Thanks for the input, I will probably try this out this afternoon. One thought about this though, *ideally* I would like the hair bits to blow a little bit in the breeze while still attached to the sphere before they break off and blow away completely. Do you think that this would be achievable using the particle generator method?

[John Hammond]

I’m pretty sure you could do that with thinking particles – but like I say, I’m starting out so I’m not sure how.

Thinking particles is quite hard to being with, it’s all done with Xpresso by wiring nodes together. Actually it’s quite straight forward to use Xpresso once you get going, but I mean learning to use Xpresso and TP are whole subjects in themselves, so you might be best off sticking with Hair for now and then learning the rest.

Surely there are some pro’s around that could help you more than me with the sunflower problem..

John