Interesting... are you referring to the 'particle to geo' node ? And then does 
it read back in as a point cloud essentially where each point (vert) would emit 
only a single particle ? 

How do you resolve the rate with the amount of vert's ?

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On May 16, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Torax Unga <[email protected]> wrote:

> One way I can think of is to write them out as geo in that frame, read the 
> geo back and emit one particle per vertex on the first frame.
> 
> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 9:30
> Subject: [Nuke-users] Set Initial State for Particles ?
> 
> Is there a way to "set initial state" with Nuke particles ?
> 
> I want to emit, drive particles into a configuration... then lock those
> particles in space (eliminating their momentum entirely), and then drive
> them with forces from that point forward. I was thinking I could spawn at
> a specific frame when the composition of particles is desirable... then
> turn off "conservation of momentum" for the spawn.
> 
> But is there a more straight forward, efficient approach ?
> 
> thx,
> Ari
> Blue Sky
> 
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