How to Get Particles to Ignore Objects and not Overlap

Support Modeling
#1

  1. When I place a building (sphere) in my particle city I want the particles to move away from it. What is the best way to do this. I am using a "force: but clearly this is not working as there are small cubes still visible around the sphere. I’ve played around with the settings and I can’t find a setting to remove the small particles around the sphere. The “force” is also creating a wave so the cubes are small then large then small. I want only the cubes around the sphere to disappear and not become smaller. Is there a better way to do this?

  2. Also, how do I get my particles to not overlap each other. If they are buildings they shouldn’t overlap.

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#2

Hi, you need physics to do the pushing thing, and particles in blender don’t have physics yet.
You could give Aligorith’s build a go, where it is posible to affect rigid bodies with force fields.
I did some tests last week, see them in this thread…