Using Particle Flow or some other particle system, is there a way to slow down already emitted particles, to simulate the slowing to impulse, like seen in TNG or even the effect seen in First Contact, when the Phoenix drops out of warp...
I've looked all over.
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I don't know about in 3ds max, but could you use an envelope and add a gravitational pull so that the particles are slowly brought to a stop by an increased force of gravity in the oposite direction of their motion? Does that makes sense?
have never used max but have an idea. is there any control for acceleration on the particles, if so just set it to a low negative value and that should do the trick. the particles will follow a lovely little parabola away then back to their source.
Well If you are slowing to impulse as suggested you can keyframe the particles speed to slow down AND keyframe the particles life to go down to zero. I tested this and it works fine for slowing to impulse. Will need tweak it to seem realistic (like scattering, variation in speed between particles,etc).
EDIT: Let me record a quick to show what it looks like.
EDIT 2:
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it would be more work than the perfect particle system but one could manually animate each particle as an object. in blender atleast you can easily make objects change speed over time, using plain keyframes or the graph editor. just for clarifying exactly what you are trying to do, can you post a link to a youtube vid of the exact sort of thing you want.
Using Particle Flow or some other particle system, is there a way to slow down already emitted particles, to simulate the slowing to impulse, like seen in TNG or even the effect seen in First Contact, when the Phoenix drops out of warp...
I've looked all over.
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If you know how to go to warp, guess dropping out of warp goes the same reversed?
Well, I never use particles for jumping to warp, when it comes to the effect I used in my TWOK video, it was simply a particle array with instanced geometry that was animated to grow in length and then the camera moved quickly through the particles to imply they were moving...
I think I've found a method that's gonna have to work for now, using a drag force on a particle system to slowly bring them to a stop as they shorten in length.
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But I managed by adding a drag force to the particles and slowly increasing it.
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That's the thing, the speed doesn't seem to affect particles that have already been emitted.
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EDIT: Let me record a quick to show what it looks like.
EDIT 2:
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But here's the warp stars from First Contact:
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I was... my original post says:
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Well, I never use particles for jumping to warp, when it comes to the effect I used in my TWOK video, it was simply a particle array with instanced geometry that was animated to grow in length and then the camera moved quickly through the particles to imply they were moving...
I think I've found a method that's gonna have to work for now, using a drag force on a particle system to slowly bring them to a stop as they shorten in length.
Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC 12GB
1TB NVMe SSD, 2 x 1GB SATA SSD, 4TB external HDD
32 GB RAM
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Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC 12GB
1TB NVMe SSD, 2 x 1GB SATA SSD, 4TB external HDD
32 GB RAM
Windows 11 Pro
Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC 12GB
1TB NVMe SSD, 2 x 1GB SATA SSD, 4TB external HDD
32 GB RAM
Windows 11 Pro
Nice. Well, right now, I'm still getting my computer all back up and running.
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