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Eudaimic
02-21-2003, 09:47 PM
Hey,

I'm trying to create a smoketrail using Dust Devil (from Blur), but really it doesn't matter which atmospheric effect I'm using.

I can't get any of the particle systems to use helpers as instanced geometry :( Is there any other way to go about it? Perhaps a third party particle system?

mouj
02-22-2003, 01:07 AM
Howdy !

why not using a standard particle system (like a Spray - set them "facing") and add it procedural maps based on Particle Age map ?
if you plan on creating a smoke trail that would work pretty well, attach it to an object moving and particles will follow and so on....

mouj

Eudaimic
02-22-2003, 02:12 PM
I'm just afraid that the intersection of the 2D maps with any architecture (my planes), will look crap.

Anyhow, I solved it yesterday night. It took me a lot of other tries, but I finally found a 'Particle Combustion' plugin :D

Problem solved (see the current test results in the link in my signature)

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