Help with deflecting particles

#1

Hi All,

What i need help with is the following:-

[ol]
[li]particles follow path
[/li][li]particles then hit a 3D form and start to hit against it’s surface
[/li][li]some build up and some fly round the outside of it because of the wind
[/li][/ol]What i’ve done to date:-

[ol]
[li]set-up p-array
[/li][li]added wind
[/li][li]created a spline for the path
[/li][li]attached the p-array to the path with the pathfollow space warp
[/li][li]created the object which and added a udeflector
[/li][/ol]
So far the partilces flow down the path and go through the object instead of hitting it.

I had it working and hitting the object before but soon as i added the path follow it doesn’t recoginse the 3d geometry anymore.

Any Clues to why??

Thanks for your help,

G

#2

Could be the order in which the spacewarps are calculated, try switching that around, so it’s bound to the udeflector first, then the path follow.

It’s worth checking out doing it in pflow with speed by icon (to make it follow the path)… 'cept in pflow you need the collision after the speed op in the event.

#3

Cheers for that a standard flow was the way forward using the speed by icon to follow the path.

Got it all working just couldn’t achieve the same effect completely but it’s working at least.

Thanks

G

#4

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