christian.guder@gmx.net

sorry for spaming the forum but i try to finsh my project. a short question. is it possible to give an particle system a special form / plane. all examples i have found the particle emitter is just a point. i want to fill a plane (a cloud with fixed borders - the outlines of people) with particles. than the particles should fall out of the cloud. is the realisation possible with max/jitter? how?

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afaik there is no option to do this via the built in particle system.

other options is to apply some forces to a custom made matrix cloud, the

prime example of this is the latest recipe by andrew b. , "shatter"

i think hacking its particle to go down (now the spreading is on the x/y

dealing with the particle life/death, variations ect. will be a different

for this i could recommend the xray.jit.cellcoords and cellvleue object. i

don't know of a way to preform their function using native objects.

> sorry for spaming the forum but i try to finsh my project. a short

> question. is it possible to give an particle system a special form / plane.

> all examples i have found the particle emitter is just a point. i want to

> fill a plane (a cloud with fixed borders - the outlines of people) with

> particles. than the particles should fall out of the cloud. is the

> realisation possible with max/jitter? how?

afaik there is no option to do this via the built in particle system.
other options is to apply some forces to a custom made matrix cloud, the
prime example of this is the latest recipe by andrew b. ,  "shatter"
i think hacking its particle to go down (now the spreading is on the x/y
planes) shouldn't be that hard.
dealing with the particle life/death, variations ect. will be a different
matter.
for this i could recommend the xray.jit.cellcoords and cellvleue object. i
don't know of a way to preform their function using native objects.

On 6/20/07, royal8  wrote:
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> sorry for spaming the forum but i try to finsh my project. a short
> question. is it possible to give an particle system a special form / plane.
> all examples i have found the particle emitter is just a point. i want to
> fill a plane (a cloud with fixed borders - the outlines of people) with
> particles. than the particles should fall out of the cloud. is the
> realisation possible with max/jitter? how?
>
> thanx
> christian
>

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