Paintfx Flower Bake

[alin-sfetcu]

Hi guys,

So heres my problem: i have a growing PaintFX flower, ive made the conversion to polygons so i can use my shaders (mainly). The controls for the animation (flowSpeed/timeStart/timeEnd) are VERY limited and i need several flowers in scene with different offsets for animation (my idea is to make a flower and then reference it several times in my scene).

therefore is there any way in which i can bake the animation (on the polygons, but not necessarily) so i can offset it easy ?

if that`s no possible is the any way in which i can control the  animation ON the PFX brush ? (assuming i have the same flower  referenced several times in my scene to easy offset the animation)


  P.S.
  hope my english is good enough so you guys can understand what i`m bubbling about

[mayacner]

Maybe you could use particle instance,and modify the flower's animation on per-particle basis:)

[dryodryo]

I'm not sure why the brush node's flow controls are not sufficient for this. If you need multiple offset animations, can't you create a single flower with flow control, then duplicate to a new brush and adjust the start/end times?

If that doesn't work, you could also use the Snapshot tool to generate multiple meshes. Then you could animate visibility or use Blend Shapes...