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carbon-3

03-25-2007, 09:33 AM

hey--problem with maya... i think..

im trying to emit particles from a texture. it works just fine when i have each of the two textures as the source, but i create a layered texture, and link that to the emit from texture thing, it emits from the whole surface. does everybody else run into this problem? can maya simply not emit from layered texture? anybody?

danke dudes.

lemonyfresh

03-26-2007, 01:33 AM

Can you just emit from the image that you want to emit from rather than trying to pull it through a layered texture? What is the effect you are trying to achieve? Are you trying to have the layered texture dictate the color of emission or the shape or what?

carbon-3

03-26-2007, 05:37 AM

thanks for the reply, and i have an animated ramp and the text in the layered texture. so basically i want it to emit from seperate parts of the text at different times. like a wave sort of. i guess i shouold just import the animation a animated texture from flash or AE or something like that eh?
any1 have any smart ideas for making maya do it?

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