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 <jens.lindgren....@gmail.com>
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 <krisri...@gmail.com> 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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