I’m working on (of couse) a space ship for a story I’m writing, and I’ve set it up so that the engine emits these blue halos. I want them to fill the area indicated in the image below, but I don’t want them to leave that area except in that small area at the rear (see pic):
Anyone have any ideas on how I can do this?
i’m not an expert on particles, but maybe you have to use multiple particle emmiters strategically placed along that confined space
To keep particles at a given distance from emitter, play on particle life
To keep them leaving in a certain direction play on surface normals and on the ‘Norm’ Slider of particle emitter
This would be enougth
YOu can also try a lattice to deform their path, but this is very tricky
Stefano
when you constraint particles in a lattice, be sure to used a matrice with an higher resolution than needed, and that the emitter is entirely inside the lattice.
Martin