cwalrus Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Hi - Can anyone tell me why the "life expectancy" is ignored in the second POP simulation here, and how to work around it? I saw this post: http://forums.odforce.net/topic/19891-pop-replicate-life-expectancyvariance-broken/?hl=%2Blife+%2Bexpectancy so maybe it's a bug? LifePOPS.hipnc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbowden Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 (edited) I was a little confused on why it wasn't working myself and then I realized you have a pop simulation pointing into another dop simulation in another dopnet. I don't think it works this way.I don't know exactly what you are trying to do but, if you just want more particles to birth off of existing particles, you should just use the Point Replicate POP. You can set parameters on there, such as life, just as you can on the source POP.I am attaching your file with a modification to show you what I mean in case you need it.-Ryan LifePOPS.hipnc Edited March 14, 2016 by rbowden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwalrus Posted March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted March 14, 2016 That 's a good method - The only problem is that I am using that original POP sim to drive two different sims - so I can't stuff them both into the same DOP network (the project I uploaded doesn't include the third sim) Still wondering why it doesn't work in the alternate setup... I've worked around it by putting a POPKill into the second sim, btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisSchmidt Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 The reason it is getting the life of the source particles is because it is inheriting its attributes. Check your POP source of the second DOP net and take a look in the attributes. There you see that it's inheriting all the attributes from the source particles. You could exclude life from being inherited: * ^lifeHope that helps.Dennis 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwalrus Posted March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted March 14, 2016 That totally worked Dennis, thanks. So ^ means "not" in this situation, while in others ! means "not?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbowden Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 (edited) It is just an attribute confusion on why its not working. If you were to delete all the attributes (except for P and v) before going into the second or third popnet then, you will get the result you are looking for.edit: Dennis beat me to it!-Ryan Edited March 14, 2016 by rbowden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwalrus Posted March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted March 14, 2016 ninja'd! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisSchmidt Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Sorry Ryan Yeah, kind of. I would rather say "^" means "except". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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