Updated Particle Flow Videos

[Equinoxx]

thx for keeping us upto date Brandon. saw this posted at the max support forum as well . . . excellent.

thx again :)

[amckay]

sweeeeet

hey brando, I just arrived in LA for 3 months, got any recommendations of cool studios ect. to check out?

[Ed Lee]

What's up Sarge?...

Cool videos....thanks.

Ed--

[hugodog]

Hi Brandon,

It'll be nice if you also make them all in Non streaming
format. For those of us (me :( ) with slooooww
connection, is very difficult to see them in streaming.
(Yeah there's still people like me using slow dial up here).

You know like those .wmv format is OK.

It'll be great if you could have them in downloadable format.

Thank you,

[drunkirishmic]

i wish i was into particles and stuff, looks like u can do whatever u want with this thing. this is sure to breath some new life into max and alliviate some stress for u effects guys.

any word from sitni satni for AB?

[MayaV]

hey Brandon

Does Pflow supports particle dynamics or reactor??????

i have not been able to watch ur videos coz i am on a very slow connection.

thanx & regards

Vivek

[gaggle]

MayaV, dude, just fyi Brandon and others have already answered that last time you asked (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=61268&perpage=15&highlight=particle%20flow&pagenumber=4) ;)

[MayaV]

hey gaggle

thanx dude completely missed that one :p

thanx for reply Brandon, if Pflow can talk to reactor then definately all of us are going to have gr8 fun.

gr8 work Pflow Team :buttrock:

Regards

Vivek

[mouj]

Howdy folks !

Just a quick one, from all i've been seing on PFlow, i was wondering if it was or will be possible to maybe save / load a specific flow ?
So that one could create a particular flow and could somehow pass it around, or share it.

Now i don't quite know if this sounds completely silly, if it may already be in there, or will never be ? I understand that it is much scene dependant, as it relies on Forces and Deflectors, so i don't know, maybe these could get exported along (?) or asked for/notified when a flow is loaded ?

What i'm thinking is really basic sharing of (premade) flows, say you've got this nice rain emission set up all with little trails, droplets and whatever, if flows could be saved basically anyone would use this nice rain stuff (or whatever) ?

I guess it might not apply for every situation, might be really usefull for very "generic" effects, or might even be a lot more of a hassle that i can think, so tell me : )

mouj

[Bobo]

Originally posted by mouj
Howdy folks !

Just a quick one, from all i've been seing on PFlow, i was wondering if it was or will be possible to maybe save / load a specific flow ?
So that one could create a particular flow and could somehow pass it around, or share it.

Now i don't quite know if this sounds completely silly, if it may already be in there, or will never be ? I understand that it is much scene dependant, as it relies on Forces and Deflectors, so i don't know, maybe these could get exported along (?) or asked for/notified when a flow is loaded ?

What i'm thinking is really basic sharing of (premade) flows, say you've got this nice rain emission set up all with little trails, droplets and whatever, if flows could be saved basically anyone would use this nice rain stuff (or whatever) ?

I guess it might not apply for every situation, might be really usefull for very "generic" effects, or might even be a lot more of a hassle that i can think, so tell me : )

mouj



Good question.

Basically, all PFlow Actions (Source, Operators and Test) are Max objects - some even create a gizmo in the scene (to let you specify directions, positions etc.) So the best way to give someone a flow would be to save these objects as MAX file and give it away - one could merge or open the file and look at / use the flow...

Note that MAXScripts used by the Scripted Actions are embedded in the PFlow objects and don't have to be saved externally - they travel with the MAX scene...

In addition, MAXScript access would allow to create a script that would traverse a PFlow and create a scripted description of the flow structure. (I wrote such a script that is almost ready and works not unlike BackFromFive. Not public yet.) Executing the script would recreate the complete flow.

Last but not least, Discreet made sure EVERY SINGLE ACTION on PFlow is MacroRecordable, so you could enable MacroRecorder, create some flow and then copy the output to a new script file which would recreate the flow when executed...

For now, I would suggest using the MAX file format to share flows...

[mouj]

Indeed, sharing the max scene is obvious :rolleyes:
I guess it's the neat interface that had me thinking of saving loading custom .pfw or something : )

Thanks for the explanation though, and the more i see of it, the more it seems indeed to have been well done and thought - cheers to the people involved !

mouj

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