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    X-Particles Beginner’s Advice Qn – Object as Emitter

    Posted by Claire Selim on July 14, 2019 at 9:26 am

    Hi there,

    I wonder if someone might be kind enough to give some advice? I’m new to X-Particles as of two weeks ago and am struggling with what is hopefully a very basic question. I have posted this separately on the Insydium forum, and just thought Creative Cow might also have some people who could help…

    I’m using Version 4.0.0724 of X-Particles within Cinema R20.059, on a PC.

    What I am hoping to do is slowly build on some particles using a polygon object as the emission source (and so the resultant shape). If they could grow from the floor up with some interesting movement, to form the object shape, I will be very happy!

    I can:
    – In xpEmitter, use the Emitter Shape as Object and emit from Points
    – Generate a vertex map, add it as the Selection in xpEmitter and only emit particles from certain vertices

    What I am really struggling to do is get any movement into this:

    – I originally had ‘Stick Particle to Source Object’ checked (no vertex maps used), and used ‘Action: Unstick From Source Object’ – but I could only get that to essentially explode the particles, and what I’d love to do is have them all slowly rise up to form the shape

    – I’m able to create a vertex map and animate it – I tried adding a Linear Field to the Vertexmap Tag and I can animate the strength – but the particles don’t update during the animation, they stay as the original vertex map from frame 1

    – I tried the xpVertexMap Object using an animated noise texture applied to the object as the source, and I can see the vertex map animating – but this has no effect on my particles across time at all

    Any advice or thoughts that anyone can offer would be forever appreciated!
    Thanks so much,
    Claire

    Claire Selim replied 7 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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