Creative COW | Peter Bentley | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/peterbentley2/activity/ Activity feed for Peter Bentley. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:49:00 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 dc9fe660f4ed682b05ecc23b38636ee0 Peter Bentley started the discussion Keep particle geometry all the same visual size despite distance from the camera in the forum Maxon Cinema 4D https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/keep-particle-geometry-all-the-same-visual-size-despite-distance-from-the-camera/ Tue, 04 May 2021 20:53:03 +0000 Keep particle geometry all the same visual size despite distance from the camera

I’ve got a thinking particle emitter sending out particles that end up sticking to scene geometry wherever they make contact. I would like to render the geometry (a circular disc) associated with each particle at the exact same visual size so that if I were to measure any two dots they would be the same pixel size. I think I need to tie the scale…

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]]> 792762c3db6c7b13711726cc7cbb1f9a Peter Bentley replied to the discussion Shoot an object out of an emitter and have it stick to another object in the forum Maxon Cinema 4D https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/shoot-an-object-out-of-an-emitter-and-have-it-stick-to-another-object/#post-2409501 Tue, 04 May 2021 16:52:39 +0000 Reply to Shoot an object out of an emitter and have it stick to another object

I figured it out. Here are the steps I was missing (sharing for posterity):

  1. Create a P Pass node in xpresso
  2. Create a PDeflector node in xpresso
  3. Hook them up
  4. Make a cube
  5. Make it editable
  6. Drag it onto the PDeflector node in xpresso
  7. On the deflector node, set bounce to zero
]]> 41821292eb7078ac227ee8aa8a61c6b8 Peter Bentley started the discussion Shoot an object out of an emitter and have it stick to another object in the forum Maxon Cinema 4D https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/shoot-an-object-out-of-an-emitter-and-have-it-stick-to-another-object/ Mon, 03 May 2021 22:44:07 +0000 Shoot an object out of an emitter and have it stick to another object

I want to create a scene that has many thousands of simple objects (probably small spheres or cubes) stuck to other invisible objects. I’ve spent the last few hours googling and I think the solution to my problem might lie in thinking particles, but I can’t figure out how to do what I’m trying to do. More specifically, I think I want… Read more

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