hair/particle question

[Ravager]

how do i "hide" the particles or hair of an object, but i will see it in a render? because in choreography mode, there is many particles, and it is slowing my computer down greatly, could anyone help?

[Paul Forwood]

Shift/8 or drag the particle button onto your tool bar. You will find it in Tools\Customize\Commands\Draw and it looks like a bunch of vertical black lines.

[Ravager]

SWEET! thanks

[Ravager]

oh, and one more question, how do you make it so that the particles appear on the outside of an object, and not the inside? because i have "object collisions" on for the particles, but they get stuck on the inside of the object, what do i do?

[NancyGormezano]

oh, and one more question, how do you make it so that the particles appear on the outside of an object, and not the inside? because i have "object collisions" on for the particles, but they get stuck on the inside of the object, what do i do?

If you are talking about hair and it is showing up inside your model - then most likely the patch normals for the hair patches are facing the wrong way

 

Shift +1 will show you the normals & then you can right click on the patches where the normals are wrong and choose "Flip normals"

 

If you are talking about other "particle effects" - sorry, don't know.

[Ravager]

yeah, i was talking about other particles, like snow or rain.... thanks anyway

[johnl3d]

for sprites,bloobies,fluid set their collision with objects to yes and select the bounce % or die on impact