Trouble with Exercise 16 (smoke, wind, & fire) V.12

[Joe Gamblin]

So I'm working on the lesson when I come to p.178.

 

Pick the "smoke" emitter in the Project Workspace. Click on the Opacity Over Life property and set it to 0%.

 

Well, I looked and looked and I can't find it to click it. I don't see it in the Workspace, or the properties window, and I have all of the trees opened. All I see is the properties (Bone position, transform, etc) Can someone help me? What am I doing wrong?

 

Oops, I forgot to say which 'it' it was I can't find. I found the emitter no problem, it's the Opacity I can't find.

[Ganthofer]

The setting you are looking for is in the material. see attached pic. There are three locations you could set it. In the Materials, under Models or in the Chor. You must expand the tree to get to the Sprite system and then below that will be each sprite and there you will find "Opacity Over Life".

 

Hope this helps

[Joe Gamblin]

Yep, that helps. Man, the tutorials need more pictures or better wording to be idiot proof.

 

*One giant Thank You to Ganthofer*

[Jeba]

I just had the same problem, i've been stuck for the last couple hours. The manual definitely needs better wording.