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fading particles in and out.
I’m using a particle emitter and trying to make particles fade in and out as they are born and then dissapear.
Right now particles appear then dissaper suddenly with no transition in either scale or opacity.
Any info on how to control each particle in its life death cycle.thanks
m
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7 Replies
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I presume a Display-Tags Visibility would work nicely here.
Cheers
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that does not quite do it. That will set the overall visibility of all the particles. What I am thinking of is the behavior of each individual particle as it is born and as it dies. seems more like it would be a setting of the emitter or of the actual emitted object. I tried visibilty on the object that I am emitting, but it had no effect.
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AFAIK there’s no way to do that (fading) with basic particles. It’s possible with Thinking Particles.
You can get size variation with the random parameter, but as you’d guess it’s just … random.
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Well, fair enough
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that should work (using the visibility parameter in a display tag) on the object being emitted. That works with both basic and TP emitters here.
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when I use the display tag-visibility on the object that is being emitted it controls all of the particles that are born from the emitter.
also, this may be due to my lack of knowledge of how display tags work, but I can’t find a way to animate tags. I go to the object track in the timeline and try to add an animation track for display tags, but can’t seem to find them.
anyway I don’t think this will work because I need to change visibility on each particle generated individually.
I think I will look at thinking particles.thanks!
m
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Just control-click the red circle next to any parameter in the AM to set a keyframe. That’ll set up the track for you. Ctrl-click again to clear the key.
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