rotate around center Thinking Particles

#1

so i have a few particle objects that i want to rotate around a dummy or something in the center. I tried this and failed using the force and orbit operators- i may have misused some options though. How can i make this effect. I also animated the dummy to rotate as i did, but everything i tried didn’t work. The tricky thing is getting the particles to rotate AND spin around the center. One thing orbit does is makes it move around the center, but i need it to spin with it also. (think of the Earth’s movement around the sun except if one side of Earth was also facing sun)

thx- this is kinda hard to explain

#2

You can PAttach to a particle in the center, then rotate that one.

#3

Ok i got it thanks- but the Pattach seems to stop all other forces on the particles? anyway to stop this- the particles were pre-broken with rayfire and i need the to come apart after they are activated and brought into a new group where they become affected by the attach. The forces are applied to the activated group but Pattach makes particles static

#4

Then don’t PAttach the particles themselves, but guide particles, and make the real ones follow them with pos follow

#5

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