'Elastic' stream of particles

[Holzi]

Maybe have a find target instead and animate the target. (at least, thats what you would do, if you would use crowds ;) Don't see why that shouldn't work in pflow as well),

another thing that might help: are your particles synced by their age or by event duration, and for how long are they born? maybe you need to tweek those settings as well. animating the influences of your winds etc. might help adding more randomness (as well as the seed).

A screen of your setup would help though ;)

[Rips]

Thanks for your input Holzi.

It did cross my mind to use an animated find target, but it will cause the particles to contract a bit with each turn.

My setup is by no means locked. I'm still in the experimental phase, so spawn times, setup for syncs etc are totally open.

[Holzi]

Thanks for your input Holzi.

It did cross my mind to use an animated find target, but it will cause the particles to contract a bit with each turn.

My setup is by no means locked. I'm still in the experimental phase, so spawn times, setup for syncs etc are totally open.

in that case you'll probably have to stick with the spline follow. Though i remember there was some setting that defines how close they live to the spline. Maybe this one helps: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1019809 (whether you follow a vortex or some other spline should not be a problem)

[3ak]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46208032/3ak_sine_cubes.zip
if you need something like this then just change direction of the velocity vector with periodic function. You can also add some random amplitude per particle and store it in particleFloat. Then:

pCont.particleSpeed = [0.02*pCont.particleAge, 0 ,pCont.particleFloat * 0.005*(sin (4*pCont.particleAge.frame))]

[Rips]

Thanks for feedback.

I'm temporarily using a follow spline combination with a sine deformer and a soft bubble motion layered, but it's not optimal. I need the 'organic' overshooting in corners etc. I guess I have to make some sort of hack in box 3.

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