On/Off Particles

[Masna]

Is it possible to turn particle sprites on and off on command?

[Caroline]

Tools Menu > Options > Rendering Tab > Draw Particles / Hair = OFF

 

Or the shortcut key is Shift 8

 

When you render and turn particles on, they will stay on in your chor until you turn them off again. And vice versa.

[Masna]

Thanks for the help, but it's not exactally what I meant. (Sorry for the lack of specifications.)

 

Example of what I meant:

 

On frame 5 a machine starts up and a puff of smoke flys out a pipe. On frame 7 the smoke evaporates and the machine is functioning normally.

 

This case might just be like an animated decal where you use on/off pose sliders.

[John Bigboote]

You can control the amount of emitted particles via keyframes, and walk that amount down to zero...if'n that's what you mean.

[johnl3d]

set a on/off pose on the model setting the sprite system rate of emission 0% off 100% on

 

 

 

 

onoff.mov

 

 

onoff.zip

 

material is AM sprite material..images in sprite folder

[thefreshestever]

you can also click the "show more than drivers"-button in the shortcut of your model in the choreographies pws and then select the material and animate the amount of emission over time... so you can fade the particle-emission in and out...

[Masna]

Thanks guys!