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Moving particles along tree roots - Rooooij3d - 11-21-2025
Hi all,
I have a rather complex mesh / as in tree roots that I want particles to move along.
I can get them to move using surface force however I want them to move in nice ordered lines.
Ideally I think i would like to convert this mesh to splines and control the particles that way ? However selecting these roots one by one and converting them to splines is not something that is gonna work especially with changes etc. Any way to automate this process ? or a better practice for this ?
Another thought I had; the tyflow skeleton birth seems to really understand the mesh flow quite well any way to convert this info to spline shapes ?
I will continue exploring this challenge but any thoughts / insights from u guys would be welcome :]
Attached are my mesh and a reference of the effect I would like to achieve.
RE: Moving particles along tree roots - Rooooij3d - 11-24-2025
(11-21-2025, 08:44 AM)Rooooij3d Wrote: Hi all,
I have a rather complex mesh / as in tree roots that I want particles to move along.
I can get them to move using surface force however I want them to move in nice ordered lines.
Ideally I think i would like to convert this mesh to splines and control the particles that way ? However selecting these roots one by one and converting them to splines is not something that is gonna work especially with changes etc. Any way to automate this process ? or a better practice for this ?
Another thought I had; the tyflow skeleton birth seems to really understand the mesh flow quite well any way to convert this info to spline shapes ?
I will continue exploring this challenge but any thoughts / insights from u guys would be welcome :]
Attached are my mesh and a reference of the effect I would like to achieve.
Ok so I am sorta getting this to work, but Im running into something else.
Is there a way to copy a particles position and paste it on an X number of other particles with a time offset. So you get a nice ordered line of particles based on the movement of just one particle. So basically what birth flow does but then an x number of times. This seems like it should be easy but I cant figure it out.
I could probably do something similar with splines but for now I would like to keep the setup flexible.