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BadG3r
03-04-2009, 03:16 PM
Hey guys!

I have a extruded NURBS surface and wanted to emit particles from it. The procedure is clear. But when I switch the emitter to surface no particles will be emitted. Some things Ive tested.

- Every other emitter types works just fine
- Looking at the pShape node count stays at zero
- Max Count is -1, but I tested some values, too. Just in case.
- I rebuild the surface bringing it in a range from 0 to 1. still nothing

Any help is highly appreciated.

I am on mac 10.4.11 and maya 2008 is running.


igor
ChristopherP
03-04-2009, 03:26 PM
you can try increasing the "tesselation factor"-attribute in the geoConnector-node on the emitting-surface...i had that same problem lately, and doing that magically helped :)


cheers
c.
BadG3r
03-04-2009, 03:35 PM
it works..

how the heck did you come up with this "trick"?
like you said... it magically helped.

relieved,

igor
ChristopherP
03-04-2009, 04:09 PM
it, too, was really destroying my day at the time...because, as you said - it's a simple setup that's supposed to "just work".

at the end it was more a question of "what attribute haven't i tried??", i guess ;)

glad it worked!
BadG3r
03-05-2009, 07:27 AM
thank you, you spared myself doing the whole I press every button thing. a two-in-one service ;)
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