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nelsig
10-03-2008, 03:22 PM
Hello

is there a way to orient a particles grid with an image. I would like to instance the particles and orienting the objects with a grayscale image applied to the particles.

Thanks a lot for your help

Nicolas
Garciaone
10-03-2008, 04:00 PM
you should be able to use the colorAtPoint command to achieve what your looking for.
drGonzo
10-04-2008, 06:59 AM
Use the emit from color function in the emitter attr editor.
Then use the instance attrs to orient the instances.
nelsig
10-04-2008, 08:23 PM
thank you for your replies

it seems to be hard to manage thousands of particles with instanced object ... the idea was to reproduce a special ink with magentic pigments oriented differently to reproduce an image. A special ink for protection pruprose like money.

But I will try to reproduce it with a shader
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