particle life time same as frame range?

[Baldric]

Hello everyone,

 

can anyone tell me what one has to do to make sure that particles in Houdini 14 will live exactly as long as the framerange that is set, regardless of what that range is set to?

 

Thanks,

 

Doug

[NSugleris]

Hello everyone,

 

can anyone tell me what one has to do to make sure that particles in Houdini 14 will live exactly as long as the framerange that is set, regardless of what that range is set to?

 

Thanks,

 

Doug

 

Not sure if this is what you mean, but you could always set the lifetime to $RFEND which will reference whatever your last frame is.  This may not be what you want as the lifetime is based on seconds, so if you're working in 24 fps you could try dividing it down to get the exact frame lifetime you want.  EX.   $RFEND /24 should kill your particles at the last frame. 

 

edit:  dividing it by $FPS should work.

Edited September 28, 2015 by NSugleris

[Baldric]

Thanks NSugleris!

 

That was exactly what I was looking for :-)

 

Cheers!

 

Doug

[NSugleris]

Cheers!

 

 

  Nico

[ranxerox]

Not sure if this is what you mean, but you could always set the lifetime to $RFEND which will reference whatever your last frame is.  This may not be what you want as the lifetime is based on seconds, so if you're working in 24 fps you could try dividing it down to get the exact frame lifetime you want.  EX.   $RFEND /24 should kill your particles at the last frame. 

 

edit:  dividing it by $FPS should work.

 

 this will work if $RFSTART is 1,  otherwise subtract $RFSTART .. so ($RFSTART-$RFEND)/$FPS

[static]

$NFRAMES/$FPS if you want to reference global frame range

 

$NFRAMES refers to total frames in your global frame range ($FEND-$FSTART)