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Rafa-el
07-29-2009, 03:46 PM
How do i make particles float around a object using particle flow? do i have to use force-wind? motion paths? or what? keep in mind that i dont want my particles to make this movement while frozen i want them to go up and down like they are struggling to levitate, how would i do this in max?
3DMadness
07-29-2009, 05:42 PM
Use a speed by icon, it will create an icon that will drive the particles so you can use a path constraint to animate it and the particles will folow it. Then you can put some wind to make it going up and down.
JohnnyRandom
07-30-2009, 05:01 PM
You can also use a couple of vortex space warps and loop your particles. Granted tweaking the vortices is where all of you control is at, it may not be as refined as you want. Simple approach though.

Set the Age Test Variation for more chaos.
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