Particle age material

[simply]

U need to define ur particles life span by adding a delete operator. Then drop a particle age map into ur material opacity slot to indicate at how visible they will be at certain percentage of their life span.

Hope it helps.

[Piflik]

Also, the Particle Age Map is quite old and fails to work properly after 65536 particles...there is a thread about this limitation somewhere in the main 3ds max Forum...

[ronnieds]

Thank you a lot my friends..it was very helpful.

Take care.

[ronnieds]

OK...i used Particle Age Material in my opacity slot, and it is working very good.

But i have another problem. Because I have to use Material Dymanic (sure?), and I´ve got Multi sub-objetc material assigned, when the particle goes to die, the material, jumps betwen my 4 sub materials.

How can I leave one material to each particle, during the particle lifes?.

Thank you so much.

[JohnnyRandom]

In the Material Dynamic did you tick the Assign Material ID? and is the Animated Texture set to Same as Particle ID?

[ronnieds]

Hi Jhonny, and Yes. I used in Material Dynamic:
Assign Material ID, Show in viewport and Same as particle ID (animated texture).

[JohnnyRandom]

Hmm, are you spawning new particles?

Can you post a screenshot of your Particle View?

[ronnieds]

It´s no spawning, just birth while the emitter moves.

Many thanks for your attention.

[ronnieds]

There is the image again. The last one, i too small i think.

[JohnnyRandom]

Something is not right, in one or the other operators, I can script this and get it to work or create a box#3 operator and get it to work but I cannot do it with standard operators.

So a workaround Remove ALL delete operators (as they will mess this up) and add the code in a script operator to set the particle age and Lifespan manually:


on ChannelsUsed pCont do
(
pCont.useAge = true
pCont.useLifespan = true
)

on Init pCont do
(

)

on Proceed pCont do
(
count = pCont.NumParticles()

for i in 1 to count do
(
pCont.particleID = i

if pCont.particleNew == true then
(
pcont.particleAge = 0 -- Set the particle Age
pcont.particleLifespan = 30 --Set the desired lifespan, or O% on the Particle Age Map
)
)
)

on Release pCont do
(

)


You could script in a Age Test = Delete to if you need, I didn't test this and I don not think you would run into the same issues as with the delete operator.

I attached and example Max8 (yes thats right I went all the way back to max8 to see if it is a new issue)

[ronnieds]

Thank you Johnny, i ´ll check this right now.

Thanks a lot for you help and time.

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