Hi guys!

Is there a way to make a particle inherit the colour of the emitting object? Or to texture a particle system?

What I need to do is to make an box disintegrate (very similar to: http://community.softimage.com/showthread.php?t=1794 ) but the box has a texture so the particles that are flying away from the box must inherit the texture. I don’t think that’s possible to texture a particle system but maybe I can do something similar to the way you texture hair (transferring a texture map from the emitter to the hair)

Any ideas?
Thanks

Yup you can do it.
Read up in the docs on the texture map property amd mappable parameters.
In v7 there maybe other methods-you haven’t said which version you are using.

In ICE, create a Texture Map property (Model > Get > Property > Texture Map)

Then connect a Get Texture Map Color node into a Set Particle Color node then connect the Set Particle Color node into the Execute on Emit port of Emit from Surface.

- Ronald

Thanks guys! I’m stuck with 6.5 for this project.

There actually is a way in the old particles. In the Emission property of your cloud, go to the Emission tab. At the bottom you will see a MapColor option. Check this option and press on the widget at the right to connect the color to your texture map.

.. Ronald