Particle Flow Discussion

#5975

Thanks Hristo, hope to see more colorful projects around :slight_smile:

#5976

Anyone succeeded making standard particles (and shaders) looking similar to Krakatoa-Fume FX shading?
Something like this:

Something like self-shaded, but also translucent-absorption shader, but with standard 3DS Max material?
Any way to fake this?
Some free shader plugin perhaps?

I’ve tried something with translucent shader, but it still not looking right (soft and translucent)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dIO1T2oAKc&feature=youtu.be

#5977

When I hit “particle view” after creating a PF source in 3ds max

It says “Addflow4 activeX not installed properly”

It doesn’t open particle view.

Maybe if i reinstall particle flow? Which i have no idea how to do. Please Help! :cry:

#5978

Install as admin and don’t ask legit users when you use cracked software :wink:

#5979

Hi Guys

Any help would be appreciated.
So I’m doing an animation with airline flight paths, i have come across a problem.
With Lock/Bond restrict to surface the paths are correct, I would like them to arc of the globe.

So removing that and just using Find target and spherical wind, i can get the look I am going for, however if the destination is further than a certain amount the particles dip below the earth surface.


Any suggestions.

Thanks

#5980

I think there was a way to sync a force influence animation to a particle’s age, so you can animate the influence going up then down?

#5981

If I may suggest avoiding Pflow on this (though, it’s definitely possible), and try to do the job with great free plugin Ky_trail.
http://lastjedioutpost.ru/?l=en&p=ky_trail

It’s really simple to use. Just pick you emitters (dummy would do just fine), set the duration of trail, and that’s about it. :slight_smile:

#5982

I have managed to get a solution using Betterwind using it’s Keep Distance, it’s still a bit finicky to get the right settings. When the project is done I will try clean it up an post a max file for any interested.

@Glacierise
I was thinking that would be the best way, using box3 possibly, as it would be different for every particle as they have very different life spans. Is it possible to tell how close to death a particle is? I’m pretty sure I have seen stuff controlling scale to death so must be…

@d4rk3lf
Ky_Trail is fantastic, but the issue is not the trail, it is the actual flight paths. I don’t have the time or even the strength to manually animate the hundreds of paths required for this so that is why a particle solution. But thanks for the reminder, I have used Ky_Trail before, many years ago. It will make the trails much lighter than pflow versions I’m sure.

Thanks for the input guys

#5983

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Hi guys I am trying to get the same particle generation as   in this video from 
[b]0:02 (seconds)  to about  0:05(seconds)[/b]
Problem
1) The Particle(petals) seem to be growing on the path  rather than flowing
2) after some time they align themseleves with the path
3) When particle start moving on the path The particles on path are not of equal size at the tip they are SCALED CONTANTLY on the path


I have tried  searching  for TUTORIALS,3DS MAX HELP .. but no use 
Pflow
speed-by-icon 
path-constraint
 I have not been able to counter the three problems can anyone HELP PLEASE
#5984

This is a bit of a cheat as its not using pflow. I am not sure how much control or variation you need , but if you just need the effect like the beginning of the video. you could try clone modfier from Itoo. you can animate the parameters its handy.

http://www.itoosoft.com/freeplugins/clone.php

#5985

http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=60942

I have tried Itoo as u suggested …it brings me near …but randomization is very non realistic… Can “railclone” help me better?

#5986

I have used it… but the realism of scattering is not helping…can “railclone” give me more control on it???

#5987

Yeah its limited, I dont think railclone with help. sorry.

#5988

That’s why I believe Max needs a better cloner imho, something like MoGraph would be a dream, but already a better cloner would do the job. I’m sure someone can come up with some tricky solutions with Pflow and some data operators, but honestly… that’s not as fast and easily doable in an everyday-fast-pace- environment. Don’t get me wrong, Pflow it’s amazing and the very thing that Max comes with it makes me happy and keep me using Max, because even though I’m not a TD whatsoever, still for many things it’s quite easy to use.
But what a better companion than a good mograph tool? :slight_smile:

just my 2 c.

#5989

The first thing I thought of when seeing this was Joker Martini’s ATK
http://animatorstoolkit.com/

#5990

Hi I had a quick at it with an idea that I had, its the good old reverse method its not perfect but it might work. Just play the animation backward you will see what I mean. It will work better if you have a way to bake the geo like xmesh or something similar then you can add the tapering and path constraints on top of that. Hope you find it useful its not elegant but perhaps you can take it further.

#5991

Hi
How can i make particles spawn in one direction??
i’ve an arrow flying which multiplies into many after 25 frames but the spawned arrows should be restricted to one direction…
Thanks

#5992

Speed Follow or Speed Space Follow for the Rotation Modifier.
(err I mean operator, too much Waldorf Blofeld programming of late)

#5993

Hello everyone.
This is impossible to understand how some bugs can be missed for years.

Simple example:

link

4 spheres are linked to teapot. Same teapot is in position object operator. But particles are placed on entire herarchy tree. Anyone notice this before?

#5994

No I hadn’t noticed that either. I recreated a hierarchy and I noticed the if the teapot is the parent, particles will propagate down to the children. It is only one way. If I select the the last child particles only populate that geometry.

Interesting find. It seems to me that it should not respect object hierarchy. What if you only wanted particles birthing on a characters palm of the hand and not the arm+rest of the character?