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Help with particle Instancer fading out please!

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Baphy

Baphy
Posted: 18 February 2010 03:21 AM

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Joined: 18 February 2010 11:09 AM

Hello

Im searching for about a week how to do that, i just found 1 tutorial, i know how to use the ramp for opacityPP, but that doesn’t work with instancer, i would like to know the script to make that possible.

Thanks

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THNKR

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Posted: 18 February 2010 04:04 AM

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It is not possible to use per particle attributes to control the shader on a particle instance. You can create a series of objects, each with the desired level of transparency and use those to fake the effect.

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Hi THNKR, thanks for the answer

my Script level is a litte low, i create 10 objects with diferent materials each with diferent levels of transparency, them i add a attribute, for the indexPP to start at 0

my problem is how do i chose each object in time, i know that i need to play with the age and lifespan and maybe create 2 other attributes

There is a example anywhere of that?

sorry about my english

Thanks

Author: Baphy

Replied: 18 February 2010 07:37 AM

Sire

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Posted: 18 February 2010 10:11 AM

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Joined: 26 January 2007 05:10 AM
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Create your 10 objects with the materials and add your indexPP, as you did.

Create the opacityPP.
Add a ramp to you opacityPP as normal.

add this to creation expression & runtime expression
indexPP = opacityPP * 10;

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Sire

Thank you so much, i already did it!!

thanks thanks thanks!!

Author: Baphy

Replied: 19 February 2010 02:10 AM

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