particle lines?

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hi

first check this out (the second video, the one witht eh blue lines)
interesting particle lines

ok
now my question

for a month now i tired to get my particles to look like this

i dont care for the animation, or the movement (although it is amazing)

i want to know how can i make my particles look like this? like form a line, i tired and tried

the closes i got was a line of dots
when i applied a texure to it, it went the wrong way,

vectors didnt help either

can anyone please help me and perhaps tell me what i need to do to get this line drawn effect???

also, in halo textures, is it possible to make them not emit??? so that when i have no light in a scene, then u cant see them? cuz right now, even when i dont have any lights, i can still see them, which is good in some scenes, but not in my case

anyway

i would greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me regarding this line drawn effects of particles.

-BlendMaster-

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Matt made that by setting all the particle velocity settings to zero and moving the mesh, so it lays down a trail of particles. You could even do it with single vertices. Set up a particle system to emit only from Verts, and set the Amount of particles high so they overlap even if the mesh moves quickly. I think it helps to set the Keys to maximum too. Animate the mesh moving about and you’ll get trails.

Edit: Colin Levy has a nice video tutorial about this techniqueat his site.