Animate Streak Emitter Properties

[ccmsteach]

I know I am missing something here, and even after surfing around the forum for firework effects and such I still am not able to animate my Streak Emitter properties.

 

When I create a new material I can click on Attribute then animate such things as diffuse color in the timeline. However, if I click on the Streak Emmiter then try changing the rate of emmission at different frames AM does not set a keyframe.

 

I even tried creating a new action, but I could not get the material to show up under the "Shortcut to Model" in the action. That was also the case when I tried looking for a shortcut to the material under the Model's Choregraphy Action in the Project Workspace.

 

So what am I doing wrong? Any thoughts? I feel like I am one click away and just don't see it. Thanks in advance.

[johnl3d]

http://johnl.inform.net/pages/streaksv11.htm

 

very similar to sprites

[ccmsteach]

Thanks! Great stuff, it helps.