Hello, and thanks for your time,

Was trying to figure out a good way to set up a Pflow to show a small sphere of particles smashing into a large sphere of particles.

so that after collision, the small particle sphere breaks up into many indiviudual particles and recombines into a sphere again...crazy eh? I know.

I was hoping there was a way to create 1) particle spheres, 2) impact those spheres, 3) break up those sphere into many particles, 4) recombine the particles to recreate the spheres.

Pflow?, Dynamics?, tuts?
thanks again, P

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Not going into too much detail, I don’t have Max near me right now.
Pflow.
1. Particle Sphere. Is that (a)a particle that is a sphere, or (b)particles that form a sphere?
(a) Shape Instance form a Sphere. (b) Position Object, from a Sphere.
2.& 3. Collision (b) or Collision Spawn (a or b) Test. Large sphere is the deflector.
4. Find Target.
That’s a start.

Sure, I attached a 3ds V2008 64bit file.

The file is unpredictable; sometimes the particles effects work, and sometimes it doesn’t :/

another way to pull this off, I think, is instead of animating the particles to what I want in one seamless scene, such as a simulation viz, I can break up it up into multiple scenes and show what I want, without worrying about the transitions.

although one simulation scene looks best.

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thanks. here is the file again

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Well your pflows were setup backwards. The collision test should go on the small sphere. You also don’t need some of the operators you had like two position operators in one event, the one on the bottom will overwrite the top one. Take a look at the setup I made, I think it’s what you want if I’m interpretting it right.

3ds Max 2009 SP1, 2010 SP1
Maya 2012
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test3.zip