Make particles shoot out through hole in suzannes head.

Support Animation and Rigging
#1

Hi

Just started with Blender and thought I’d like to animate particles rattling round inside a glass suzanne and out through a hole in the head.

I’ve got particles flowing from a plane inside suzanne but they just shoot out without respecting suzanne as a vessel. How do I get the particles to bounce inside and only come out through a hole I made in the head.

Many thanks

#2

just select suzane, press f7, select the partical interaction tab, turn on deflection, and recalculate particals

#3

That’s a quick response. Many thanks. I’ll give it ago.

#4

just select suzane, press f7, select the partical interaction tab, turn on deflection, and recalculate particals

ummm this doesn’t work for me…

#5

Nope me neither so far, as a total noob to blender I thought it was something I was doing wrong.

Part of the problem is that if I select suzanne and then go to the particle tab there’s no particle effect setup to deflect. I’ve set the particles up to emit from a small plane inside suzannes head. they emit but just emit everywhere not just through the hole I made in the suzanne mesh.

Any ideas?

#6

Is the Suzanne head and the emitter mesh on the same layer ?

Particle deflectors only work on the particles that are on the same layer.

#7

You need to recalculate normals inside, meaning, make all the faces on suzane point in, just enter edit mone on suzzne and press Ctrl-Shift-N.

#8

Many thanks again, I’ll give it some more.