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Emitter dropping parachutes
Hi everyone,
I am stuck with a scene I am working on, and I believe it’s nothing too hard, just me beeing a noob:
I have a planet with an orbiting rocket; parented to the rocket I have an emitter dropping objects (boxes) onto the planet’s surface.
Until here, everything is working fine.
What I’m struggling with is: I need a parachute attached to those boxes, therefore I need to apply some kind of orientation to the objects the emitter drops, in order to make it look they are falling smoothly and perpendicular to the planet’s surface.
I can’t find a way to achieve this, maybe with expresso?
Any help would be really appreciated!
Thanks for reading
Giacomo
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3 Replies
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Are you using standard particles or Thinking Particles? If standard particles you can put a constraint tag on your particle object and use an aim constraint to keep the object facing in the Y direction.
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update: nevermind, I got it working!
I tweaked a few options and it’s now working fine.
Just in case anybody else gets the same problem in the future, I think the main thing preventing me to obtain what I wanted was the “tangential” check in the Emitter tag; switched it off and now it looks good.
Cheers
edit: I uploaded the scene demo just in case anyone needs to do the same thing. I don’t think it’s the most elegant way to do this, but you might never know.
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Thanks Adam
I saw your reply only now, I got it to work properly.
Btw I am using the standard particles emitter.
The costraint option sounds interesting, I’ll give it a go!
Thanks very much
Giacomo
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