particle flow - particles on surface

[ww667]

Well about yes.
Teling you now haven't used max for some time but....
Well you will need
particle source
deflector
ant model
cookie model
after that in particle source you will need colision event and find or folow target it was ;)
Put it all together instance ant model as particles chose cookie as target and let it run ;)
Well that is basic.
Problems you will run in to:
Colisions
bounce from deflector
position where your ants are looking at
animation of ant legs moving
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and much much more.

recomendet video tutorials to watch to make it look good:
3dbuzz.com segraph or 3d world was it particle effects
and robots video tutorials ( i don't recall who was creator ) Look it up on google "robots 3ds max video tutorial"

Well except that i doubt i can help much without actualy recording video tutorial :(

sorry for bad english

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robots video
http://www.lotsofrobots.com/Web3/IndexStoreFS.html
and from 3dbuzz it was for 3d world magazine Particle Flow video tutorial

[jenga]

i will look into them tutorials thanks :D

[Vympel]

You can use operator like Position Object e Spped by surface

[SOE digital]

Just use the crowd behaviour tool in Character Studio ;)

[theotheo]

Chris Thomas posted a nice tutorial for a similar setup here : http://www.christopher-thomas.net/pages/free_tutorials/tut_particle_flow_spiders/ct_tut_particle_flow_spiders.htm

Cheers!

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