Re: Syflex simulation for making paper with ICE forces

[Jason S]

I dunno, I thought 'falling' leaves 'flew' more than they 'fell',  but could elaborate more on your setup? If I got you correctly,  your'e emitting little grid instances, with the particles themselves reacting to a wind force, and other things making them flocking around, and your'e looking to also have them syflex deform by the same wind force affecting the particles (?) But when you say instances are you're talking about actual instances?  I think that you would have to 'premake' the models that would be on the particles they could all remain as objects, but what if you merged and froze them and then have one particle that transform each island, (I could fetch a recent thread about that) then perhaps applying syflex on the grids model, with it's own syflex wind force (plugged-in one of the 'forces' slots) having the same direction /strength/animation as the regular wind force blowing on the particles that drive each island. (?) On 02/15/15 17:33, Pierre Schiller wrote: Jason, they don´t have to "fall", they "fly along (flocking)". The flocking part is done. The settings for syflex is done. But I don´t know how to tie up the air resistance (and thus the syflex woorling against the wind) for each individual "paper" grid on the cloud. I need help with how to tie syflex forces react along ICE forces.. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Jason S <jasonsta...@gmail.com> wrote: Did you also check-out the "Falling Leaves" compound? http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/iceref_Falling_Leaves.htm Would that play well with syflex? On 02/15/15 15:14, Alan Fregtman wrote: What are you trying to simulate exactly? Falling paper sheets or something smaller like money bills? On Sun, Feb 15, 2015, 2:43 PM Pierre Schiller <activemotionpictu...@gmail.com> wrote: Good day everyone. I´m setting up a particle emmiter, emmiting rectangles (at the moment). The general idea is the emmiter produces "paper" (grids with 8x8 subdivs). So I setup a simple syflex (damping, stiffness, etc) on a model and used it as instance on the emmiter. But what should happen, is the instanced model should receive forces from the ICE emission, and also collide with themselves (rigid bodies). So where should I need to place the instanced model on the simulation tree? or How do I get the syflex instanced plane to recieve ICE forces? Thanks. David R. -- Portfolio 2013 Cinema & TV production Video Reel -- Portfolio 2013 Cinema & TV production Video Reel