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Thinking Particles Mindless of PDeflector
Hello All,
I’ve been doing a few tutorials to get Xpresso and Thinking Particles down. I’m doing this one and I’ve done everything in it but I get to a point where what the tutor does isn’t working at home.
At 9:20, Mr. Murray gets a reaction from a deflector object by switching the PDeflector type to Object from Box. Try as I might, my setup still ignores the deflector object. He is using version R12 Studio and I am using version R15. I wonder if that is the difference?
TIA,
Eric FitzgeraldHere is the tutorial and my screen shot of where I get stuck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Bh3IWI7zo
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4 Replies
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Did you make that deflector sphere editable? The system needs polys to figure out position.
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That was it! Thanks for taking the time to get me unstuck Steve!
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Now if I could just figure out what node will start the particle emitter at a specific point in the timeline. The old particle system had a start frame/end frame node built into the emitter.
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There is an “On” port in the Pstorm emitter (left side) – just hook a constant node to that set to boolean and animate this node going from 0 to 1 on the frame you want the particles to start. You might even be able to keyframe the “on” port in the attribute manager of the pstorm node.
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