Getting particles to NOT stick to vertices on a goal

[Cheesestraws]

Add goalU and goalV attributes to the particles and set them to random values between 0-1 in their creation expression, you can then change their goalU and goalV values in the before/after dynamics expressions to get them to move over the surface.

[peterlorenz]

Thanx for the very quick reply.
Your answer put me on the right track, but I still have a few problems..

I typed in this under creation..

particleShape1.goalV = rand (0,10);
particleShape1.goalU = rand (0,10);

Yes, I know - I wrote 0,10 and not 0,1. That's because that seemed to make them spread out more. I'm using a nurbs sphere as emitter/goal, and when I write 0,1, the particles seem to stick to one area of the sphere.

Under Runtime Before Dynamics I wrote:

particleShape1.goalV = rand (0,time);
particleShape1.goalU = rand (0,time);

Any ideas? As you can probably see from the above, I'm not very skilled when it comes to scripting, so unfortunately I need any help to be quite precise..

[Aikiman]

You have to rebuild the nurbs surface since with nurbs the UVs get mapped to a span or section by default not the whole object. Use the rebuild option and set reduce on with 0-1 Parameter range in both U & V.

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