The goal is to make you proficient in the tools TP gives, and more importantly - in building TP systems. It looks at basic, intermediate and advanced concepts, and how they are implemented in TP, and will be pretty exhaustive. There will also be a second DVD, in a few months hopefully, where the more artistic side will be explored.
Thinking Particle's 3.0 Tutorials
SerdarVFX
#127
@Glacierise: looks promising! Any ETA?
@Headsmell: Can you upload all existing TP tuts on ur HD to rapidshare? Would be really awesome. A Torrent file would be a good alternative too.
HeadSmell
#129
@Headsmell: Can you upload all existing TP tuts on ur HD to rapidshare? Would be really awesome. A Torrent file would be a good alternative too.
If you go back to page 7 of this thread
ulb was kind enough to put everything up on Rapid share
depleteD
#131
Yea I gotta update my shit…
sry i have been so vacant lately, I got a bunch more coming.
I have a new site, Ill be posting rapidshare links soon,
and thx again ulb
–Andrew
tasiek
#132
Hi,
I’m trying to control with curve, random values assigned to each particles. I remmember this setup in some tutorial. It was setting particle size with Random Op, but with custom curve you could control bias of the random values. eg. majority of higher values from random op range were chosen.
Hope u understand what i’m sayin 
cheers!
Glacierise
#135
You create a random value per particle, in a range of let’s say 0…1. Now what the value to time setup gives you, is basically the position in the animation of a certain node, for each input value. It’s exactly that animation that you can control in the curve editor to get biases, etc. So the setup is - random-valuetotime-float, with the time output of the VTT linked to the time input of the float. then you tweak the float’s curve, and probably multiply by a max value its output, and there you go. Non-linear animation is a bit of a brainbender, but it’s explained in my DVD, so you might wanna check that out 
THarland
#137
I was cleaning up one of my hard drives today and came across the content from Andrew Melnychuk’s website.
I’ve uploaded it all to Rapidshare.
I’m pretty sure it’s everything up until the site went offline.
Most of it is mirrors of the stuff that ULB already posted, but there are a few more things.
Enjoy.
Avoiding Deforming Object Collisions
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Black Boxes & TD Tools
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Caching For Production
Part 1
Part 2
Intro To Thinking Particles
Part 1
Part 2
Glacierise
#138
I got unlimited bandwidth recently, so I can host them temporarily, until Andrew reopens his site, if he’s ok with that. Rapidshare blows
Glacierise
#139
Ok, they are up! There is a new topic in tutorials/thinking particles, the tuts are there. Enjoy!
cojoMan
#140
I have been trying to do some arrow particle system, but I kinda failed at collisions.
Basically, when the arrows(boxes really) hit the ground node, they keep jittering around.
The problem I am having is making them collide realistic with the ground.
I born and align them, give them gravity, and then just got a shape collision node connected to the floor. Changed the subsampling at 1/2 frame, and the voxel grid at 10.
But now I am stuck…
Scene File . Any ideas ?
Glacierise
#141
When they hit, send them to a new group that doesn’t have any forces or SC acting on it, and stop them with velocity 0.
cojoMan
#143
Thanks, but I need them to collide with the floor, not stick into it. The sticking part I manage, the bouncing off the floor I don’t.
CGTalk_Moderation
#144
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