Clustered Smoke With Particles As Source

[Yon]

hey,

when using the clustered smoke shelf tool on particles, It errors 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'prims'.

If you Simply create a location popnet, and try to use the clustered smoke on the location_particles - this error happens.

Anyone know?

thx

 

 

 

[Farmfield]

This is why you should avoid the shelf tools and set stuff up manually - the second it stops working as expected, you're lost. When you come to the point where you don't really need the shelf tools, then you can use them out of convenience.

In this case, somewhere in the clustered smoke setup it looks for the primitives of an input geo - a particle system have none. So if you pipe your particles into a copy and copy a sphere on each, then add the clustered smoke, it should work.