MEL SCRIPT LifespanPP problem

[arturo]

Hello, Thanks for reading my post. I dont really have any MEL knowledge, I just wrote this script reading other posts and copying the code that interested me .

So far the scripts works fine, except it isnt "killing" all the particles in the ID list. Do you knpw why this can be ? (already deleted nparticle cache several times)

So this is my script :

if (nParticleShape2.particleId == 187 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 547 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 1031 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 1259 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 1260 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 1407 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 2236 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 2296 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 2629 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 2823 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 3845 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 4569 || nParticleShape2.particleId == 4579 )
{nParticleShape2.lifespanPP = 0 ;}
else if (nParticleShape2.lifespanPP = 20) ;

In this example the script isnt killing particles 1031 and 1259.

Thanks for helping me out

[bfx]

Is this a runtime before dynamics script?

It may be caused by your particles dying and in effect reassign in your particle id's. You might need to use something called indexedId

I'm sure someone else can help you before I get back to my computer next week but just in case, go to the frame where things aren't working and in your Mel input line type in this:

getAttr nParticleShape2.particleId
.
Please reply with the return result.