Hi,
I am creating an animation where I need to simulate musical notes coming out of an instrument (you can download the project below). I created a musical note and then used the Particle Instancer to replace the particles in a given emitter for my musical note. I already figured out how to animate the musical note's size and opacity over time with the use of ramps in "Per Particle (Array) Attributes" which I later use in my "Instancer (Geometry Replacement)" as you can see in the link below. My problem is that I still haven't been able to animate the particles rotation.
As you can see in the link below my particles seem too stiff as they move upwards, they have no rotation at all. How can I make them rotate (slightly) to simulate that they are floating freely through space? If the answer is "by using expressions" I would need somebody to write such expression for me (I'm still not familiar with expressions but I promise I'll get started soon)
Thanks a lot for your help!
Javier
Sample Movie: http://www.javisuals.com/MusicalNotes.mov
Screen Capture: http://www.javisuals.com/InstancerPerParticle.jpg
Download Project (Maya 2008 Mac): http://www.javisuals.com/MusicalNotes.zip
PS: I also tried with a Turbulence field, a Vortex field and/or the combination of both (neither used on the above sample movie) but I still couldn't get my musical notes to simulate a believable "floating" effect.