Offset animation for particle Instances?

[rufio]

Hi,

The original geometry is animated, a set of tentacles belonging to an anemone that grow out from a separate body. I would like the particle instanced geometry to be animated - how do I get the growth animation of the geometry to start from the birth of each particle? Don

[drblacksnake]

unless You have animated mesh sequence, then particle instancer on its own have no effect on animation offset.

It depends on effect's complicity, but if simple, then I'd rather create character for each tentacle and use animation clips with offset to animate others.
Also, if no Trax culd be used and tentacle's animSetup ir relatively simple, then expression could be written to start animate each tentacle at frame given individually. Here particle could be usable to set this startFrame and pehaps agePP for individual scale.
I'll try to figure out anything else or more precise, and if successful I'll post it here.

[mads-tuxen]

You can only do this with instances, so what to do is create a shape for each frame (just go forward 1 frame and make a copy) then you put hem all in the instanced geometry and now you can write an expression that starts af mesh one (you animate the index of shapes in the instancer) and run through all the shapes and thereby animates the shape. look in the help files under instanced particles im sure that will do the last bit for you.

If you have an animated object it just uses the same animation wich in you case would look lame....

[rufio]

Have finally managed to get back to this animation - and your idea worked just fine. Sincere thanks for this! All the best, Ruf