Particles Attract to geometry

[CinnamonMetal]

How can I get particles to attract to geometry. Not a direct attract, the particles birth and do what they do but as they get close to the geometric object they begin to attract to the object ? At the moment I'm only getting the distance how far they are from the geometric object.

[Atom]

Check out Johnny's particle flocking example file here.

[CinnamonMetal]

This is good except; do you know any tutorials on strictly the AutoDopNetwork to get more familiar with it or is it alright whatever I'm unfamiliar with I simply ask ?

[Sepu]

You could use the pop proximity that will give you an attribute

@nearestdist

where then you could use popstream and do something like 

ingroup = @nearestdist >.1;

then in that pop stream you can do anything that you want for example you can add a pop attract to get the particles attach to your geo. 
There is a few Master Classes around 

 

Edited March 3, 2018 by Sepu

[CinnamonMetal]

I re-watched these tutorials; although a few questions remain, these are good tutorials to reach towards an intermediate level in POPs.

Although after connecting a pop proximity the help card mentions a `@nearestdist` attribute; I assume that the geometry spreadsheet doesn't list this attribute although it still exists once this node is placed within a POPNet ?

The pop attract I set the Attraction type; surface points directly it to the SOP path of the sop object.  Without jumping too ahead of myself, I assume why my particles are not moving has to do with the pop stream & pop proximity which are before the pop attract within the pop net, network ?

 

Edited March 5, 2018 by CinnamonMetal

[Sepu]

I don't know how your network looks like so I coundnt tell you, if you post your .hip I could help. the attribute that the poproximity creates you should be able to see it outside DOP network unless you delete it.
 

[CinnamonMetal]

The @nearestdist attribute is not visible even when outside the POP network ?

The particles don't move when scrubbing the timeline and don't attract themselves to the sphere ?

PrimAttractObject.hipnc