How did Broken(matt ebb) do this?

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http://download.blender.org/demo/movies/particle_def.avi

this is off the main blender.org page here

http://blender3d.com/cms/Particle_interaction.349.0.html

it says something vague about curve guides but I can’t really follow. I really like the “strange attractors” effect with just the two particles. I want to put this in something with a strict deadline so please help!

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I have the blend, but it doesn’t work in 2.42a? Anyway check here: http://mke3.net/projects/tests/particle_def.blend

The way it was done was using a sphere as a particle deflector (recalc normals inside).

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It doesn’t opens in my Blender 2.42a on Linux

4

Broken probably set an empty or so to vortex and then used animated particles setting it so they go into the range.

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The file opens, it just takes a long time to re-calculate to particle emiters of 400000 particles each!