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  • Freeze time with trapcode particular

    Posted by Daniel Weaver on February 16, 2010 at 7:47 pm

    Ok so I want to use particular to have particles that do not move, but stay fixed in 3D space to rotate around. You would assume it would be by stopping particle births, but then obviously there are no particles at all!

    Steve Bentley replied 7 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    February 16, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    I would not assume it would have anything to do with particle birth. If you stop people from giving birth, it wouldn’t stop time on our planet.

    Try under the physics twirly and going to Physics time factor. If you go to the spot you want the particles to freeze and keyframe it from 0 to 1, you should be happy.

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  • Austin Hill

    August 1, 2018 at 10:16 pm

    This is MOSTLY the correct answer, however, you need to keyframe from 1 to 0.

  • Michael Szalapski

    August 2, 2018 at 12:24 am

    Sorry, yes! 1 to 0!

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  • Steve Bentley

    August 2, 2018 at 1:24 am

    Or if you want to have particles emitted from an object and don’t go anywhere just make their velocity zero (and any randomness 0 as well) and after the first frame keyframe the birth rate to 0. They will be frozen in the spot they were born.

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