sanostol Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 (edited) hi, i want to control the orientation of the instances from outside. for example I want to give every point a specific orientation attribute, that i want to read in later in dops rbdpointobject. the rbdpointobject has a option called use point value, but what kind of variable is it looking for? Edited March 31, 2007 by sanostol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 (edited) Generally with instancing/copying, alignment is controlled by either the point normals or velocity with the positive Z direction of the object to be instanced/copied facing alone the normal. The best example to see exactly what is doing what is to just rbdpoint instance a cone (tube with radius 0 and 1) to a grid with either normals or velocity and testing different results depending on the direction of the point normals/velocity and what axis the cone is aligned to in it's creation options. Edited March 31, 2007 by Hammy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanostol Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 Thanks Generally with instancing/copying, alignment is controlled by either the point normals or velocity with the positive Z direction of the object to be instanced/copied facing alone the normal.The best example to see exactly what is doing what is to just rbdpoint instance a cone (tube with radius 0 and 1) to a grid with either normals or velocity and testing different results depending on the direction of the point normals/velocity and what axis the cone is aligned to in it's creation options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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