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MichaelR
07-29-2007, 01:11 PM
Hi all,
Iīm just following this tutorial
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/dynamics_fx/138-3.html

But I donīt archieve the effect, that the final molecule and the containing atoms are "blobbing" into each other.


Anything I could do wrong?

Help greatly apreciated.

Thx,
Michael
Duncan
07-29-2007, 06:50 PM
The particle render method needs to be blobby, the radius on the particles needs to overlap significantly and the blobby threshold needs to be > 0. Note that if the blobby threshold is 1 or more then you will only see a surface where particles overlap, individual particle will vanish. Generally one needs a large radius when using a large threshold. Also the blending effect is only visible in final renders not hardware display.

Duncan
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