Particles Starting Behind Emitter

[bravid2001]

I am using an emitter with streaks. I have applied a gravity field and the emitter has a speed of 7. When the particles leave the emitter, they start behind the emitter and not right where the emiter is located. If I reduce the speed to 1, the particles emit just fine but then they flow to slow. I need them to flow faster without starting behind the emitter.

I am using Maya 8.5 on a 1.6GHz G5 OSX 10.4.11 with 1.5 GB RAM

Thanks,

Brad Stewart

[joojaa]

Thing is emission works like this:

emit + dynamics move. (even partial)

So with ANY value in emission speed makes them be born Not on the emitted point. Thing is it masks out the discrete value of dynamics making them seem continuous which is 99% of the time the desired behavior.

But you can use the emit commend to place them more accurately, also you could make the decisions at post dynamics script time if you wished.

[bravid2001]

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But you can use the emit commend to place them more accurately, also you could make the decisions at post dynamics script time if you wished.

Thanks for the quick reply Joojaa. I have to admit though, that is all a bit over my head. Are you saying that, the way the particles are behaving is usually the desired effect? Also, I'm not sure how to use the emit command to place them more accurately. Is that something I would find in the attribute editor? And what is post dynamic script time?

Sorry for all the questions.

Brad Stewart

[joojaa]

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Are you saying that, the way the particles are behaving is usually the desired effect?

Yes, usually youd emit out of something and havibg 2 coplanar items is not sane.
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Is that something I would find in the attribute editor?

no

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And what is post dynamic script time?

Read about particle expressions in the manual