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Gemini
03-10-2008, 07:54 PM
hey all, i have a particle simulation (multiple particleShapes) that i need to reverse and slow down. while the particle disk cache uses currentTime to read the cache, the cache is read in extremely fast. however, once i break the connection to current time, and add my own keyframes, the entire scene slows waaaaay down.

i have tried creating new time nodes and keyframing them, but found no difference in the speed the particle cache was read. i have also tried expressions instead of keys, but that wasn't much different either.

i would appreciate any ideas you guys might have.

thanks
Gemini
03-18-2008, 10:38 PM
answered my own question. for some reason, even when just reversing my particles ( not slowing down) the time values were not on whole numbers. by baking the time curve and snapping every frame to a whole value sped things up quite a bit.

what really made the difference though was cacheing more frames. not really sure why... e.g. i was only caching the particles for frames 1-800, but rendering the scene until 1200. it wasn't until i cached all the way up to 1200 that thngs came back to normal speed. wierd

any ideas why?
acidream
03-19-2008, 01:29 AM
Theres a fluid retime script on highend that makes it easy to retime fluid caches.
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