Moving particles along tree roots

[Rooooij3d]

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.

[Rooooij3d]

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.