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[Rikrok]

I have some primitives being moved with particles. The age is working fine within the pop network, but when I take it to scale the primitives things get messed up, even though the particle numbers mach the primitive numbers. If anyone would look at the file I'd really appreciate it!

[Rikrok]

Rikrok, on 21 June 2012 - 10:00 AM, said:

I have some primitives being moved with particles. The age is working fine within the pop network, but when I take it to scale the primitives things get messed up, even though the particle numbers mach the primitive numbers. If anyone would look at the file I'd really appreciate it!

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•  scalingPrimitivesWithParticleAge.hip   92.38K   22 downloads

[rayman]

try

1-prim(opinputpath(".",0),$PR,"life",0)/prim(opinputpath(".",0),$PR,"life",1)

[Rikrok]

rayman, on 22 June 2012 - 03:53 AM, said:

try

1-prim(opinputpath(".",0),$PR,"life",0)/prim(opinputpath(".",0),$PR,"life",1)

Doesn't work I'm afraid

[Rikrok]

So now I'm trying using this method:
1-point("../popnet1", $PT, "life", 0)

However all the primitives are scaling down, even though some of their ages are actually staying at zero! I'm baffled.

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•  scalingPrimitivesWithParticleAge2.hip   93.75K   17 downloads

[3dbeing]

You are subtracting from 1, so as the age increases the value of the expression decreases.  Seems to work right.

[Rikrok]

3dbeing, on 22 June 2012 - 02:07 PM, said:

You are subtracting from 1, so as the age increases the value of the expression decreases.  Seems to work right.

The problem is only some of the particles age (a group of them have their ageing suppressed), but when using the age out of the popnet to scale the primitives it's as if they're all ageing.