Hi Timo again..
Would things work, if the particle specific channels, like 'Size' in my
case, was implemented so they could show up in the 'Render Channel' popup
menu that becomes activated when 'Pointwise' is checked.. ?
I mean, if I in the Geometry Tab of the Particle, set the 'Color' to
pointwise, and in its 'Render Channel' popup chose 'Size'
If this could be done, would a Material mapped texture onto a Particlecloud
then affect the 'Color' Channel in the Particle and that in turn add its
value to the pointwise 'Size' ?
Or am I just on totally wrong track... ?=( as usual.. rofl..
If this had worked.. it would be far easier than using JS or..hmm hehe..
Maybe a bad example by me, since the texture should only control the size of
the particles.. but not their color....=).. hmm
Thx in advance
Take Care
Best Regards
SteFan Gustafsson ( Beg-inner )
A Proud Owner and User of Real3D and Realsoft3D..
Well, you can't access particle size from VSL (afaik), so the only way
I can think of is to assign the material to a custom channel in the
particles and then use JS to copy that value to the particle size.
Alternatively you could try to use a choreograph instead of js.
There's a few probs though: I don't know if either way can access the
value and pointwise attributes in JS might still be a bit
broken/incomplete.
On 28/02/2008, Beg-inner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all..
Does anyone know how to make particles pointwise Size value to be
controlled
by an (animated) texture?
AFAIK, the attributes values can be held in a channel and be used in
materials to control/influence channels like Color and so on.. to make a
material that change color depending on the particle size.. but I cant
see
how to make it work the other way around.. Change size (or other Particle
specific channels) by a color ... or `?
(Do one need to use JS to get info back n forth between a texture and
the
Pointwise Size attribute ?)
I am going to use these controlled particles inside a Metaball level, to
create cool animated Metaball shapes.. =)
Thx in advance..
Take Care
Best Regards
SteFan Gustafsson ( Beg-inner )
A Proud Owner and User of Real3D and Realsoft3D..
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