unique random particle orientation for copy

[b1m2x3]

Well, it's almost 3am, and i can't seem to get this to work.

I'm trying to get these grids that are copied to these particles to randomly orient themselves. They have no velocity, so i thought creating that attribute would work, and in details view with this, vx, vy, and vz are all different per particle, BUT they still all align themselves!

The scale is randomly affected... so why not vel/direction!?

Should i make an orientation attribute?

I've done this before, but it's late and i forget what i did

Edited May 16, 2008 by b1m2x3

[GallenWolf]

Try it in the normals dude

Also, you might want to offset your rand($ID) a bit to like rand($ID+1.2323) etc. for each x y z normal. Else they're gonna be the same angle all the time.

GW

[b1m2x3]

Try it in the normals dude

Also, you might want to offset your rand($ID) a bit to like rand($ID+1.2323) etc. for each x y z normal. Else they're gonna be the same angle all the time.

GW

adding to the normals did the same thing as adding to velocity in this case.

offsetting the x y z did help a little though, but for the most part, they still line up.

Edited May 16, 2008 by b1m2x3

[MIguel P]

adding to the normals did the same thing as adding to velocity in this case.

offsetting the x y z did help a little though, but for the most part, they still line up.

Set the components to [ rand($ID)-0.5, rand($ID+1)-0.5, rand($ID+2)-0.5]. You'll get a more random result.

Also, since the velocity vector that comes from pops has a length, you should override the parameter, not just add the rand to it.

But I would add the rand functions in the rotation fields at the copy sop multiplying it by 360 degrees: rand($ID+x)*360.