Wind force won't affect static particles

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Hello everyone!

I’m having a rather interesting problem. I have a plane which is set to emit static particles. Both the Static and Animated options are selected, as are the options for the particles to emit from verts, faces, and rand. The normal value for the particles is set at .01 and the random value is set at .3.

The problem that I’m having is for this particular scene is that when I add an empty and set it to act as a wind force (with varying degrees of force value) it has no effect on the way the particles are generated. I’ve tried recalculating all the particles, to no avail. I’ve also done a test on a completely different scene, and it had no problem with changing the direction of the particles.

Any thoughts? I’m probably just forgetting something simple, but I’m kinda stumped at the moment.

Thanks,
-Cthos

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Is the Wind Empty on the same Layer as the Particle Emitter? Do you have MaxDist on for the Wind but not a high enough distance value? Are your Wind circles pointing in the right direction?

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Fligh: added to wiki. thanks.

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Thanks!

It was on the wrong layer. I had it on layer 3 and the particles were on layer 1. (I had forgotten that just before that I had moved something else to layer 3 and then changed the layer visibility)

D’oh!