Can I make an object a particle (say a uv sphere) then add a particle system to the sphere? basically making a trail of particles coming from the original particles that are using the sphere object.
Hope that makes sense.
basically I want a bunch of spheres shooting through the air with a trail of particles coming from each of them. Maybe that is a little more clear.
thank you for any advice.
Very cool but not quite was I was looking for.
Do the spheres have to be particles? How many spheres are you talking about?
around 50, I figured particles would be the fastest way of doing it. I’m probably going to have to scrap that part of the project and just have the logos flying through the air with no particles streaming off them.
Couldn’t you animate 1 sphere, add a particle system for the trail, and copy that 50 times?
yeah, I was just hoping maybe you could put particles on particles.
I think what you are looking for are reactor particles.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Physics/Particles/Fireworks
Unfortunately it hasn’t been implemented on blender 2.5.
Depending on your scene setup, you can generate them using blender 2.49 then just composite it over your scene.
I just tried it in 2.6. If I understand. Worked fine. i used a plane that that emitted a sphere object and the sphere emitter with halos set velocity up.
very cool that is what I was looking for, I’ll have to play around with it more to see if I can make it work. Did it show up in your view port or only in render? Too late for my current project, but I’m sure I’ll need it for something else.
No it did not show in view port only render
