hi,

i was wondering whether it is possible to get something like a rotation on individual particles in a particles system.

this applies to the particlesystem utilizing geos or models. as for now, a model would alway be facing in the exact same position as it is created.

i don't even need a specific precise rotation, just some (even random) variation.

can this possibly be done via a gravity or orbit point argument i haven't yet discovered?

somi

You can make a recursion chain to get something like a particle system. Don't know if you can rotate particles in the regular system.

Bonjour from paris-france

of course you have many possibilities to make mooving your particles in Gem
even you can put your own mictures or textures on them
there are no tutorials

i can send a coomplete/complex patch via email to you
mine is

beyreuther@wanadoo.fr

...i dont know how to put my exemple on this forum, so don't hesitate

best

Gottfried

thanks,

however, i (i'm the same user as somi) had a particle system with gravity, orbits, velocities etc. already working when i posted this.

my problem is, that all the particles in a system are always oriented in the same direction.

let's say you'd want to have a swarm of flies as a particle system and would use a .obj model as one fly, all flies in my swarm would always face in the same direction.
when working with textured rectangles or models, that obviously can look a bit lame.

what i was hoping for, was a sort of rotation-jitter on each individual particle.

for now i use a repeater chain, with each new source being rotated differently...not quite the same.

btw: if you use "post reply" in the lower right below the last post of a thread, you can attach attachments.
when posting with the field "Quick post" you dont't have that option.

you could use part_info to generate only the positions of the particles and send them to your flys placed in externals and do the orientation testing there, useing pipe to get the vector between current and previous position.