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Butterfly flowers: random surface placement and changing aim direction?
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  • johnnyz
  • Posted: 24 February 2010 08:50 AM
  • Location: Minneapolis,MN
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So, I’m trying to make a flower but instead of pedals it has butterfly wings. After an arbitrary amount of time the butterflies fly away. I’ve found a way to place the butterflies on the surface so they are perpendicular to the surface normal. What I still need help with is to set something up to control a random rotation per instanced geometry while still having them perpendicular to the normal AND when they fly away have them fly going face first. The attached file should explain things more clearly. any help is appreciated.



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  • johnnyz
  • Posted: 24 February 2010 08:51 AM

hopefully the file will attach now.................



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since area’s forums are broken, here’s a link to the file

http://www.4shared.com/file/229178831/c35fdf8f/butterfly_test3.html

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Replied: 24 February 2010 08:58 AM  
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  • johnnyz
  • Posted: 25 February 2010 03:02 AM

maybe the forums are feeling more cooperative today...... hopefully the attachment actually attaches this time.



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nope.....

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Replied: 25 February 2010 03:05 AM