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convert particles to obj mesh before export?

Postby DayVids » Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:23 am

DayVids Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:23 am
Hey Guys,

I'm working on creating an animation of a particle based animated mesh replacement, and I'm having a bear of a time getting things to work right (eg none of the particle based meshes are showing up). I'm assuming their just not converting, but is there a way in the official or unofficial tool to make this work? thanks for any help you can give.

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Re: convert particles to obj mesh before export?

Postby yoyoz » Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:40 am

yoyoz Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:40 am
Hi Dave,

at the moment the only way to get particles is as follow:
- setup a particle system on your emitter
- setup a particle modifier on the object that will be the particles
- be careful with amount of particles as this is very CPU and memory intensive

The following picture and animation have been made using this method: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42855#p42855. I'll be investigating other ways but this is not as easy as it sounds.

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Re: convert particles to obj mesh before export?

Postby DayVids » Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:03 pm

DayVids Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:03 pm
Excellent, wouldn't have been able to do it w/o that.

Thanks for the help!

Re: memory, 12gb should get me far enough with this, it's just a bunch of falling diamonds for a 30 sec. commercial
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