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stevecullum

07-10-2007, 07:45 PM

I'm trying to get my head round using metablobs and particles in C4D. I've been warned that they are slow to render, so I have applied my blob to a single point.

I have then added an emitter, made the metaball and point a child of the emitter. But when I render it all I get is the metablobs rendering as sphere and not blobbing together as expected. I've added a metablob tag to my point object, but still no joy.

Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong?

Srek

07-10-2007, 08:35 PM

Try making the emitter the child of the Metaball object. The Metaball object is a generator like a HyperNURBS and will use the geometry from the child object to create a new geometry.
The Emitter is also a generator that uses it's children as source for the particles it generates.
Cheers
Björn

stevecullum

07-10-2007, 08:51 PM

Thanks Srek - just the job! :)

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