Particles from a wave

[janina-overley]

I am trying to recreate sand blowing off the top of a sand dune using Soft 3.9 and Particle. The sand dune is a Nurbs grid deformed by a slowly moving linear Wave. In Particle, this grid is selected as the Source, with particles generated across it's surface.

The problem I am having is that Particle doesn't seem to recognize the wave, or transformations applied to the grid after the wave. Instead the particles are generated over a flat plane of size and location equivalent to the grid before the wave was applied.

Is there a way around this? All help appreciated

[colinsenner]

In reply to:
Hy,

probably you worked around the problem. If you dont:

wave is a interactive fx, it needs the softimage environment. to export the animation you have to plot the animation --> Plot/ Shape

sven

[janina-overley]

Thanks Sven

Yeah I have worked around it, though it felt really daft - seeing as Particle recognised the waves actual wave movement but not its translation, I ended up moving the rest of the scene around it - oh well I'll no for next time

snowctrl