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Theta-Dot
11-29-2002, 06:29 PM
I am rendering a 1500 frame long scene with a camera moving through a nebula in space. I have the particle spray set up, and I like the way it looks, but there is no way to make the particle spray just sit there while the camera is animated.

I want to have the camera move through the stationary particles, but the spray keeps spitting out new particles! Is there another way I can do this? Can I just collapse the spray somehow so I can animate and not have it keep spraying? thanks

=ThetaDot=
BrandonD
11-30-2002, 04:00 AM
Try using Particle Cloud instead.
Theta-Dot
11-30-2002, 09:42 PM
I did, but it never looked as good. No matter though, I cheated and animated the camera to move with the particles, so everything is alright now. THanks anyway. Thread officially closed!
googlo
12-01-2002, 11:17 PM
You can take a snapshot of the particles and that would create a mesh of them at the moment the snapshot was take, like a freeze frame kind of thing
amckay
12-01-2002, 11:41 PM
If you wnat the spray to stop spitting out particles it's just a matter of animating the birth rate to die off after a certain amount of time...
Theta-Dot
12-02-2002, 12:18 AM
How do I take a snapshot of the particles?

-ThetaDot-
googlo
12-02-2002, 12:30 AM
Next to edit in the main menu bar

Tools>Snapshot..

you can take a snap shot of a range of frames or just single one here you are currently at with the time slider.
Theta-Dot
12-02-2002, 12:35 AM
Golly. That was too easy:) I should have known that. Thanks

=ThetaDot=
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