Comments on: Editing non-hair particles – teaser

By: wraybowling

wraybowling — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:17:45 +0000

Put in my vote for 3.0

By: +peter

+peter — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:29:12 +0000

Blender Core :)

By: goldenacorn93

goldenacorn93 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:07:48 +0000

Blender Generation 2.5 Ultimate. :)

By: ROUBAL

ROUBAL — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:56:58 +0000

Thanks for working on these amazing new features !

Jahka, are you aware of these bugs ?

[#19037] With Sequence of images, Textures parameters for particles not refreshed (So hair particles system not refreshed when changing frame in animation) and Density button not active in Blender v2.49a

By: TxRx

TxRx — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:18:55 +0000

This is a nice feature, great work Jahka!! Am I right in thinking that this would help with the ability to ‘direct’ vfx (smoke, fur, water et al) a bit easier? If it does and we can directly access the point cache data via 2.5’s new python api, then man, this is (like I’ve already said!) a proper nice nice feature!!!

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:52:44 +0000

Well you could probably have the particles go from the mesh of the hand to flow into another mesh of a head shape, I’m just thinking that you could almost ‘paint’ the flow of the in between frames almost like painting 2d keyframes. You know, for fun and added control.

I have controlled particles in the past with fields as sort of ‘checkpoints’ for them to flow to or away from, but the idea of painting them sounds very cool. :)

By: kram2301

kram2301 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:30:49 +0000

Hmm…
ad Ben:
I think, it would be even better, if you could use a particle-control mesh for that (like in Fluid Sim). That would reduce the amount of brushing, you’d have to do, as the mesh already gives you the base shape…

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:42:28 +0000

Blender 2.5 makes sense enough to me. Let the software do the talking instead of the naming convention. :)

@Jahka – Well done! My brain doing a little wander…

A characters hand is set as an emitter mesh.
Particles flow out from the hand.
The particles get brushed into the shape of a monster face after a few frames.
The particles get linked to the smoke simulator.
The smoke sim gets linked to the volumetric renderer.

And the whole thing works together to look awesome!

By: Alex Blank

Alex Blank — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:00:45 +0000

How about “OHMYGODISTHATREALLYTHEBRANDSPANKINNEWBLENDERIHEARDABOUTBUTNEVERREALLYBELIEVEDWOULDCOMECUZITSTHEHOLYGRAILOFNEW3D!!!!2.5″

By: BlenderLovinElephantHorse

BlenderLovinElephantHorse — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:20:52 +0000

I think we should get rid of the name Blender altogether

and just call it Poor Man’s 3ds Max