Re: strands generated on points

[Kris Rivel]

Hot damn that worked! Thanks!! Tried to set it to points initially but it
didn't do anything unless I cranked it super high, makes sense now.

Kris

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 11:54 AM Jens Lindgren 
wrote:

> This one is easy :)
> First, in you Emit from Surface Compund set Select Rate Type to Total
> number of Particles and set Emission Type to Point. Rate doesn't really
> matter when you want to emit from mesh vertices.
> Then the secret sauce... Go in to your Emit from Geometry compound, then
> go in to Generate Points compound. In there, bring up the Generate Sample
> Set node properties and set Rate Type to All Points.
> Tada!
>
> //Jens
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:29 PM Kris Rivel  wrote:
>
>> Trying to make a long exposure effect of a stick of LEDs twirling around.
>> Have a nice animated grid of strands flying around and it looks great.
>> Problem is the particles generating the strands are just emitting on a grid
>> and stick to their emit location so they're not lined up nicely on the
>> emitter. They're just spread around randomly. Hoping I can keep this but
>> only generate one particle per point...but keep the "simulation" working so
>> I can turbulize it etc. and keep my generate strand trails which only seems
>> to work on simulated particles, not a simple "add point" on empty cloud
>> setup. Any ideas?
>>
>> Kris
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Re: strands generated on points

[Steven Caron]

Use Jen's suggestion and not mine! :)

*written with my thumbs

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019, 8:54 AM Jens Lindgren 
wrote:

> This one is easy :)
> First, in you Emit from Surface Compund set Select Rate Type to Total
> number of Particles and set Emission Type to Point. Rate doesn't really
> matter when you want to emit from mesh vertices.
> Then the secret sauce... Go in to your Emit from Geometry compound, then
> go in to Generate Points compound. In there, bring up the Generate Sample
> Set node properties and set Rate Type to All Points.
> Tada!
>
> //Jens
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:29 PM Kris Rivel  wrote:
>
>> Trying to make a long exposure effect of a stick of LEDs twirling around.
>> Have a nice animated grid of strands flying around and it looks great.
>> Problem is the particles generating the strands are just emitting on a grid
>> and stick to their emit location so they're not lined up nicely on the
>> emitter. They're just spread around randomly. Hoping I can keep this but
>> only generate one particle per point...but keep the "simulation" working so
>> I can turbulize it etc. and keep my generate strand trails which only seems
>> to work on simulated particles, not a simple "add point" on empty cloud
>> setup. Any ideas?
>>
>> Kris
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Re: strands generated on points

[Steven Caron]

Wow, been a while for me but... Don't use Emit On Surface and instead bring
in the mesh, plug it into a get data (set to point position) then plug that
into an Add Point node. That's bare bones so you'll need to init some
variables for simulation... Ie. Mass, size, shape, etc

*written with my thumbs

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019, 8:29 AM Kris Rivel  wrote:

> Trying to make a long exposure effect of a stick of LEDs twirling around.
> Have a nice animated grid of strands flying around and it looks great.
> Problem is the particles generating the strands are just emitting on a grid
> and stick to their emit location so they're not lined up nicely on the
> emitter. They're just spread around randomly. Hoping I can keep this but
> only generate one particle per point...but keep the "simulation" working so
> I can turbulize it etc. and keep my generate strand trails which only seems
> to work on simulated particles, not a simple "add point" on empty cloud
> setup. Any ideas?
>
> Kris
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Re: strands generated on points

[Jens Lindgren]

This one is easy :)
First, in you Emit from Surface Compund set Select Rate Type to Total
number of Particles and set Emission Type to Point. Rate doesn't really
matter when you want to emit from mesh vertices.
Then the secret sauce... Go in to your Emit from Geometry compound, then go
in to Generate Points compound. In there, bring up the Generate Sample Set
node properties and set Rate Type to All Points.
Tada!

//Jens


On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:29 PM Kris Rivel  wrote:

> Trying to make a long exposure effect of a stick of LEDs twirling around.
> Have a nice animated grid of strands flying around and it looks great.
> Problem is the particles generating the strands are just emitting on a grid
> and stick to their emit location so they're not lined up nicely on the
> emitter. They're just spread around randomly. Hoping I can keep this but
> only generate one particle per point...but keep the "simulation" working so
> I can turbulize it etc. and keep my generate strand trails which only seems
> to work on simulated particles, not a simple "add point" on empty cloud
> setup. Any ideas?
>
> Kris
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