A shovel throwing dirt... particle settings

[FloydBishop]

Since I got no replys, I started playing around (and beating my head against the wall at the same time).

I found that I got halfway decent results with an emitter that spit out sprites. I played around even more, and found that an emitter with an instancer that referenced actual geometrical particles made it look even better.

I still don't know how to get random rotation (other than using fields) on the particles.

Any suggestions? I'm guessing I need to use some sort of expression, but I have no experience with expressions what so ever. Is there a setting to have random rotation to particles somewhere that I didn't think to look?

[snikki]

Hey Floyd,

I think you're on the right track using sprites to make the effect.

THe way I'd set it up looks a bit like this:

- Make a short 10 frame looping animation of a brownish cloud. You could use the 3dcloud texture to generate this one.

- Map this one onto the sprites with random start frames. This will make your particles non-uniform and the texture will make them animate over time as well.

- By having the texture quite transparent you can essentially make more dirt by emitting alot of particles thus making a solid object.

- Set up a emitter object on the shovel itself.

- Play with the dynamics :)

Good Luck :thumbsup:

SAmi

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