Thinking Particles

[Vad]

Hi People,

 

I've started a project where a lot of particle animation will be involved. Purely theoretically the TP-module in C4D looks awsome, but somehow I can't figure out how to do some basic stuff there. To be specific:

I have this scene where there is sand falling down and as it falls down it has to pile up in form of a building.

 

So the 2 questions concerning this are:

 

1) How can I assign a complex mesh (here: building) to the particles flow, so that the flow assumes the form of this mesh.

 

2) How can I let the particles flow along splines, whereby not that in the end it would look like a thin particle "string", but like an actual current whose path is dictated by the spline.

 

Hope this was not too much to ask.

 

Vad

[dazz_downunder]

great question mate........i look forward to hearing answers on this one.... this ill test em hehehe

 

dazz

[leed]

You may find this site some use.

http://www.bonkers.de./r8/tp/tp.html

 

or try posting the question on

 

http://www.creativecow.net/index.php?forumid=19

 

Hope that helps

 

Lee