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| drop007 |
| hi does anyone have any ideas on how to move eg particleShape1.id[1] to eg 10 in Y? |
| Sid Conner |
| ctrl+a? :P |
| drop007 |
| no :P I want to just move the particle with id = 1 to the new position |
| Sid Conner |
| ah heh I don't know think you have to move the emitter |
| drop007 |
| then i move all the particles |
| Sid Conner |
| yes :) couldn't you just select it and move it? :P from the outliner |
| drop007 |
| nopp, cant move it in 3d space I konw there is possible to do it using expression, I am just having a hard time moving just one. |
| Ted Town |
| maybe in the componentEditor |
| Shawn |
| h3ro: expressions is your friend =) |
| drop007 |
| i know, but sometimes people you like hate you...just like expressions:P |
| Shawn |
| hmm like... lemme se now something like: if particleID = 1{set translation or offset} as a per particle attribute |
| Ted Town |
| how many particles you have ? |
| drop007 |
| a lot:P |
| Ted Town |
| and that one is bothering you ? maybe you can just kill it |
| drop007 |
| I have to sett the particle possition for ca 2000 particles :( I guess i can use the metod Shawn wrote in a loop? |
| Ted Town |
| so you want to move all particles ? or only that one with ID == 1 ? |
| Shawn |
| thought you wanted to move those who was emitted from a certain emitter? and that several emitters are connected to same partShape? create several emitters and make em emitt same particleShape? and then translate the emitters to the different vertexes? |
| drop007 |
| ok, this is what i try to do: I have lot of particles which do need to have the same position as the vertexes of a object (particleID1 = vertex1 and so on), but I only want this relationship in X and Z, not Y the particles are beeing puched around, so i am trying to fix their postion with using expressions |
| Ted Town |
| maybe you should make 2 particle systems, one fully goaled, and the other aligning the x and y to the particles of the goaled one, after dynamics i mean one particlesystem fully goaled to the object |
| drop007 |
| Ted, look like something in the way i need :) so, then particleShape1.pos = particleShape2.pos? or will is still have to use if (id ==1) {stuff} |
| Ted Town |
| no unfortunatelly it is more complex than that at least concerning getting and setting the position unfortunatelly it has been a while since i needed such particle-expressions |
| drop007 |
| thanks a lot anyway :) just one more question, how can I use the data from a Xform command in a expression? |
| Ted Town |
| have you checked the developer mel-area of the manual ? there are mostly examples |
| drop007 |
| yes, but there are no examples of how to use it in an expression |
| Ted Town |
| what are you interested in in particular ? which flag ? there are 2 help lines about xform, you just have to supply the right values for the flags |
| drop007 |
| I was thinking of maybe using the ouput from vector $a = `xform -q -ws -t polyVertex[1]` in the pos of the particle. if id =1, pos = $a.x,1,$a.z |
| Ted Town |
| but the matrix stuff is more complex try it, i dont know if that works, sounds feasible |
| drop007 |
| it does not work |
| Ted Town |
| xform is only for the transformation node not for shape-information like vertex-positions, i checked |
| drop007 |
| you can use it to get vertex pos wait, that did work... dont know what i have done wrong, last time i tryed it did not work. Just did it again in order to get the error message |
| Ted Town |
| hmm i only read its for the transformation Node and that node is only for the whole object not for components, but if you say so |
| drop007 |
| vector $posVert = `xform -q -ws -t pPlane1.vtx[1]`; just added it in a loop, works like a dream :) |
| Shawn |
| dreams can very quickly turn into nightmares =( |
| Bugdishe |
| maybe... [URL=http://bar-code-scanner.blogspot.com]:)[/URL] |
