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    I need my Particular emitter to emit a trail of particles rather than producing new ones at the head of the emitter

    Posted by Charlie Clark on March 15, 2011 at 10:27 am

    I have an emitter light moving in 3D space and a camera following the emitter. I need the emitter to emit a trail of particles (particle is set to textured polygon playing random still frames from a pre-comp), so the particles at the head of the emitter remain the same shapes taken from my pre-comp.
    Can anyone help please?

    Tudor “ted” jelescu replied 15 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    March 15, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    If you need the particles at the emitter to stay the same I think you may need two particular layers. One with just one frame of emission and then 0 emission for the rest of the shot, the other constantly emitting. Hope this is clear enough.

    Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
    Senior VFX Artist

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