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MrFreeman
11-01-2007, 02:43 PM
Sorry if this is really simple, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm creating a sequence where I show glass shattering and flying towards the camera.

At a specific point in time the action freezes (matrix style) and the camera moves through the frozen shards of glass.

I want to add smaller glass fragments using a particle emitter, but don't know if and how to freeze these partcicles at a specific point so we can travel through them as if stationary in mid air.

Any advice (constructive if poss) would be greatly appreciated

Dave :banghead: :bounce:
TimC
11-01-2007, 03:08 PM
If you use thinking particles then this is possible using the PFreeze node. You can animate the freeze parameter, so the particles ease into their frozen state.

cheers
Tim
MrFreeman
11-01-2007, 03:28 PM
:thumbsup: Thanks Tim

Should have thought of that!! :eek: - only just got that module, so not had a chance to use it.

You've saved the day :beer:
JeremyW
11-01-2007, 04:13 PM
Sounds like PFreeze is the way to go, but just for giggles, you could have done it the way they did in the matrix: place several cameras (along the desired path), each taking one shot, then sequence each of those shots together to create the illusion.
Srek
11-01-2007, 08:03 PM
Or do a mixture of both by using DT (Delta Time) to modify not the real speed but the "timeflow" for particles.
Cheers
Björn
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