Group particles and animate whole group

[tymc]

Thanks very much, d4rk3lf!

Especially for clearing up the difference between the particles and physX solvers. Now I get why there are seperate "Binds" and "Breaks" and "Switches" for particle AND PhysX.


I tried to put it in, like you wrote, got a little confused with the part, where it should branch of into the new event and ended up with this...

(see attachment)

For some reason it would work without the PhysX Switches, so I turned them of.

It is pretty fine the way it is now and I tried saving the "inertia" of the rotation using "Speed". On "From Last Position (Verlet)"-setting it does quite that, but is there a better way maybe?


Anyway....thank you very much. It is a huge step forward.



The way I would do it is:
- Birth object (pick up the source )
- Object Bind (pick up the source, and that will drive spinning animation), select - lock to surface
- Voronoi
- PhysX shape
- PhysX Switch - kinematic (so it preserves the animation)
- PhysX Collision (pick up any collision object that you want your particles to activate and send into event where they are not bind to object)
.... So... above PhysX Collision lead to next event where you only have...
- Physx Switch - activate
- PhysX Shape  (probably not needed, because PhysX Shape automatically transfer to next evet, but you might wanna change some settings)

In your setup, there's a few things you need to be aware of... mainly is Particle Bind and PhysX shape.
They don't work together.
Keep in mind there is a 2 ways to simulate rigid dynamics: PhysX, and Particle Physics.
Both solver have their own binding operator, switch operator, and others.

Particle force is simpler, and faster then Physx Shape, but it can't work on voronoi shapes, it only works as particle (sphere) that collides with each others, then can't use any other shapes.... it's ideal for sand simulation.

Hope this helps, and clear some of your dilemma.

Cheers.