Particle Live, Curve Flow

[christianmassyn]

I want to make a curve flow but at the end of the curve the particles must gather and swarm around, not just die of How do i do this? I can not seem to find the part where this is linked to

[gmask]

you'd have to alter the scripts so that they swarm around a different goal object

[christianmassyn]

This I know but i can not find the link to the live of the object. It would be a start if I could just get the particles to emit out of the end of the curve flow and keep living.

[gmask]

I was just messing around with it and it may take some considerable messing with to make it do what you ask for. However one thought I had was that if you put an object at the end of the path and set the particles to collide with it and then split when they collide using the Event editor you could probably get what you want.

[christianmassyn]

So is their still no one that knows how to make these particles live after the curve flow, I tried doing it differantly but this does not look as good and it bothers me that i can not get this working

[joojaa]

Well its a bit problematic. YOu could just simply change the script to use some other custom attribute that you then increment like age. Then the age would be possible to cut out of the equation.

Hwoever youd still need to release th particle somehow. In essence you should engineer the entire curve floe mostly out of scratch. BUt then again its just a example for you to study.

Anyway age is used for the position along the curve. You could make a new varaiable thet does the same as the normalized age into the ramp. Its not enough to do this in just the expression as you will need connections on top of this.

Ok do this:

add a new per particla attrubute userScalar1PP connect it to the arraymapper instead of age normalized:

then put at the end of the runtime befor dynamics:

CODE
Flow_particleShape.userScalar1PP=Flow_particleShape.ageNormalized *2;
if (Flow_particleShape.userScalar1PP>1.0)
  Flow_particleShape.goalPP = 0;

Adjust the multipler for faster speed on the path and the point in the particles lifetime that it gets off the flow wagon. You can then add normally fields to controll them for the remainer of heir life.

Just one way.

[christianmassyn]

thanks a lot Joojaa that was driving me crazy