breakthelocke

oh I really like the out of frame idea!!!! thanks again-- I had been using the opacity over life graph editor and didn't know what was going on...... I'll try the emissions. thanks!

So far nothing has stumped me as much as this one--- I would like my particle emitter (smoke) to begin on <x> frame. How can I do that? Every time I try something, it just keeps blowing out smoke starting on frame one and ending on the last. For example, how would you get someone to have a cloud of green smoke come out of their mouth when they open it, and stop when they close it? muc appreciated.

I read that you can select one control point and edit>inverse selection will select just that spline ring... anyways, I can't get it to work... is it supposed to? thanks.