CGTalk - Particle Meshes

maddav99

02-10-2002, 09:11 AM

I tried to post this before I left on vacation, but I'm not sure if it made it or not, either way I can't find it so I figured I'd post it again. Is there any way to render a particle as a poly mesh a la 3ds max to have, say, a broken window shatter in to large pieces and then to shatter in to smaller on impact with the floor, or am I confined to either use a shatter effect or try to fandangle some sort of sprite? If I am confined to the shatter effect, is there any way to fake it to get it to render faster.

Deepray

02-12-2002, 02:41 AM

It sounds you triying to Instance geometry with particles, to perform dinamics actions. Try to read the html help file --- file:///C:/AW/Maya4.0/docs/en_US/html/UserGuide/Dynamics/Particles14a.html#186186 --- or something like Rigid bodies --- file:///C:/AW/Maya4.0/docs/en_US/html/UserGuide/Dynamics/RigidBodies.html#179707 . Try.

maddav99

02-12-2002, 03:26 AM

Thanks. I got some direction and found the information, but just haven't had a chance to read over it yet.:D

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