certain parts of a object emitting + other Qs

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#1

  1. I’m trying to make a furrball, however it’s hard when the strains are so long that they stick through eyes… If i have a icosphere as a particle emitter, can I choose what parts of it to emit particles and which that won’t emit?

  2. Since it was a while since I used blender, I’ve forgot some basic things… like, how do you break out some selected faces into a seperate object? (and how do you join selected faces to another object?

Thanks in advance :smiley:

#2
  1. I’m trying to make a furrball, however it’s hard when the strains are so long that they stick through eyes… If i have a icosphere as a particle emitter, can I choose what parts of it to emit particles and which that won’t emit?

With weight painting, you can do this.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Weight_Paint
At the bottom it talks about particles.

  1. Since it was a while since I used blender, I’ve forgot some basic things… like, how do you break out some selected faces into a seperate object? (and how do you join selected faces to another object?

P to separate, Control J to join.