SNOW - GRAINS - ATTRACTING TO GEO

[chrisdunham95]

I did have this affect working - reverse engineering it then reversing in post or using a timeshift/warp - however i have a animated alembic arm which i want snow grains to fall attract too and form the arm - have no idea how to go about this - Tried using pop attract - doesnt give good enough results - and as i said before i created grains from geo then disperesed them and reversed in post - but with a animated arm the source cannot be itself as the grains do no carry through the animation - as the arm forms we want the animation to be their 

 

any advice/ideas would be great or tutorials - i know its achievable especially with VEX but my knowledge is not that deep. 

 

- these are previous rnd's which worked before animating th arm for your reference and my hip file  

 

- latest rnd 

 

two hip files provided below

 

and animated arm here; https://www.sendspace.com/file/rtk39l

 

SnowForming_Animated.hipncSnowForming4.hipnc

[3iart]

Do the sand animation to a static, "t-pose" arm.

 

Use the original arm animation to deform the static sand arm.

 

Try pointdeform or attribute interpolate or combination thereof.

 

It's not just plug an play, it will take some noodling; that is the road I would go down.

 

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[chrisdunham95]

Do the sand animation to a static, "t-pose" arm.

 

Use the original arm animation to deform the static sand arm.

 

Try pointdeform or attribute interpolate or combination thereof.

 

It's not just plug an play, it will take some noodling; that is the road I would go down.

 

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interesting idea, thanks alot dude - yeah i know that ive tried 3 methods of my own ive devised but none work fully