Thousand arrows animation using maya

[zeonmastervfx]

hi everyone,

i m doing a thousand arrows animation  like the one used in the movie  "300". i almost acheived the effect using nparticles in maya.  what i did was i used a polygon  object  and i used it as an instancer to emitter.

but when the particle gets emitted it emits in the same pose of the model.

i want to rotate the particles. could anyone please help me on this issue. i m attaching the sample pics of what i did so far

[john-zilka]

try setting the aim direction to velocity in the instancer tab under your particle shape node. Also by default the way the instancer is set up, you're going to want the arrow head pointing down the x axis (if you haven't already done that) hope this helps.