3DS Max Question: Controlling Particle Creation?

Pink Panther · Post by **Pink Panther** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:46 pm

I'm trying to animate a gun firing bullets, but with the particle systems and animation that I've been able to produce so far with Max's default particle plugins, all I can choose is basically Off or Machine-Gun. What I really need is something where I can create a keyframe that basically says "Fire Bullet" and causes an emitter to emit one particle. Is there a way to do this?

Defender · Post by **Defender** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:26 pm

I think this is where max scripting comes in.
You'd need to make a script that said to create so-and-so particle emitter, set it to these settings, and run it for n number of frames.

I'd say just search google for what you need, as when I used to work with max I'd seen a lot of tutorials on its scripting.

Robo · Post by **Robo** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:53 am

I'll look into it for you later when I get back from school. I've done it before.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 8:45 am

well if you are useing Max6 u can use Partical Flow. but with the normal partical system just setup a birth rate and u should beable to get an good effect.

p.s.
if your wandering what PFlow is heres a little 4mb vid of it
http://mtlstream02.discreet.com/streami ... w_150k.wmv

Robo · Post by **Robo** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:35 am

Warlock has it.

Pink Panther · Post by **Pink Panther** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:57 am

Okay, thanks guys, I'll try that...

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:33 pm

did it work for ya?

Pink Panther · Post by **Pink Panther** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:48 pm

It's a complicated particle system, and so far I haven't been able to get it to do what I want. I'm just slow, though.

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:04 pm

You could also try custom attributes hooked into some kind of particle system or maybe even objects in the gun.