Pyrocluster not working with mograph's cloner object

[xfon5168]

Hi all,

I'm trying to create an animation of a cheetah running, but the cheetah is made of smoke.

My approach is to animate the mesh using MOCCA in the regular way, then fill the volume of the mesh using a Mograph cloner object that is cloning a pyrocluster emittor to fill the mesh with pyrocluster smoke.

First problem, mograph cloner object does not clone a pyrocluster emittor. I can get round this using some primitive Xpresso but when the mesh animates it is not updating the position of the cloned emittors in the mesh.

I really appreciate any thoughts on the problem.

Thanks

Mark

Instead of a cloner, use a Matrix Object. Set it to Object Mode and using Volume. Then set it to generate Thinking Particles, and then create a TP Particle Geometry set the appropriate groups for both the Matrix and the Particle Geometry(should probably just be set to all). Create a Pyrocluster Shader and a Pyrocluster Volume Tracer. Create an environment object, drop ther Volume Tracer on that, and the pyrocluster material on the Particle Geometry.

[shibunkin]

Hi, thanks for your reply, that was my first post in the forum, I'm really pleased with the response. I'll try out your idea this evening.

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