Particle System 0.0.9

Coding Python Support
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Particle System is freely available to the Blender community. It is a
series of scripts Dynavision|FX has been working on for some time.
Basically it is a particle system that takes selected objects and
uses them as particles. There are three kinds of forces for now,
Radial, Vector, and Vortex. With these forces you can simulate
swarms, gravity, explosions, missiles, and other interesting things.
I am still working on Wind, Springs, Expressions, and Collision
Detection. Particles have mass, drag, velocity, acceleration,
momentum, and impulse attributes. More functionality, possibly a GUI,
may be added in time. Maybe even collision detection. The author and
company make no warranty to the scripts usefulness or working, accept no liability for the use of these scripts, and will provide no
support (though it doesn’t hurt to ask). Have fun. Please send any
enhancements made to Particle System so that it might be included in
the Particle System distribution.

Here’s the URL:
http://www.dynavisionfx.com/blender.html

Bart Robinson - Special Effects Artist
Dynavision|FX - http://www.dynavisionfx.com

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: bartrobinson on 2002-03-19 13:10 ]</font>

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Particle System 0.1.1 Update. Now with Wind forces! There are has also be some code cleanup, code relocation, new docstrings added, and optimizations. Download it at http://www.dynavisionfx.com/blender.html

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I tried the .zip and the .blend and both gave me an application error. The error message said:

blender.exe
Exception: access violation (0xc0000005), Addrss:0x0041af88

I don’t know if that’s useful, but I thought I’d send it.

By the way I LOVE YOUR SCRIPTS! Very cool!
Dan

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What version of Blender are you trying to run it in?

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Sorry I should have given you more details. I tried running it in Blender 2.23 on a PC (windows NT). I have used your previous scripts with no problems. It is possible that it just didn’t download properly.

Dan

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thanks for the update. i can’t wait to test it. your scripts are great!

LarsB

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On 2002-03-20 22:21, djphotoduck wrote:
Sorry I should have given you more details. I tried running it in Blender 2.23 on a PC (windows NT). I have used your previous scripts with no problems. It is possible that it just didn’t download properly.

Dan

I don’t know about the download. I will try it myself. BUT, I wrote Particle System on Blender 2.22 Windows because version 2.23 CRASHES ALL THE TIME with python. So I will test it out, see if I can’t get it to work, and post my conclusion. All I know is 2.23 is seriously buggy, python wise.

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Well, I use 2.23, and it rarely crash because of Python… Maybe it’s related to a specific action you were doing?

Martin

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Actually, I think it’s related to the scripts executing “OnLoad” when double clicking the blend file to start Blender and load the file at the same time. When I open Blender first, then load the blend file, there is no problem. Even in version 2.23.

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oh yes, I think OnLoad is broken in 2.23.

Martin

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Thanks for your help. I got it to work by:

  1. using Blender 2.22
  2. Using python 2.1 (I had 2.2)
  3. re-downloading the script.

The first time I downloaded the file it must have not come across right because that file wont work.

Thanks again for the great scripts!
Dan

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I tried 2.2 and 2.23 and both of them crashed.
I opened Blender first, and that didn’t help.
Python 2.1.2 is on my machine.
Any ideas?

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i wanted to study some particles script,is this code still working
im using 2.41 so i may have to use 2.2 or 2.3 ,right/

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Edwin this was like 4 years ago. The site is not even there any longer

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thanks i try to follow the threads theres just so many on the site ,

know where i can get info on analyzing the particle script in blender i want to work on my programming skills doing something im interested in