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Birthing particles using a map - hughwyeth - 05-02-2023
Hey guys, I feel like i should be able to find a workaround for this but haven't figured it out yet.
I have a cloth sim with tyflow and i want to birth some particles in specific areas on this cloth sim using a map - this map also drives a displacement. I want the particles to be birthed in the lower parts of this displacement, but I cannot figure out how to do this in tyflow. I realise there's not a specific operator to do this (or is there??) but i feel like there must be some combo of custom properties or some other thing that would allow me to do this? Any ideas would be appreciated!
RE: Birthing particles using a map - tyFlow - 05-02-2023
The Position Object operator has a texture parameter which allows you to position particles on an object based on texture luminosity. So the order of operators would be:
1) Birth operator, specifying how many particles you want
2) Position Object operator, using your cloth as the input object, with a texmap assignment which determines where particles will be birthed, based on texmap intensity.
Make sure you're using a texmap with explicit map coordinates. For example, a Noise map in world/object mode won't work, but in explicit map mode it will.
RE: Birthing particles using a map - hughwyeth - 05-02-2023
(05-02-2023, 11:54 AM)tyFlow Wrote: The Position Object operator has a texture parameter which allows you to position particles on an object based on texture luminosity. So the order of operators would be:
1) Birth operator, specifying how many particles you want
2) Position Object operator, using your cloth as the input object, with a texmap assignment which determines where particles will be birthed, based on texmap intensity.
Make sure you're using a texmap with explicit map coordinates. For example, a Noise map in world/object mode won't work, but in explicit map mode it will.
That's awesome, thanks so much!