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moxi
05-23-2008, 05:17 PM
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I am working in XSI on something where I have multiple particle clouds in a scene. I would like the particles from cloud 1 to be attracted to goal B and the particles from cloud #2 to be attracted to goal A. However, any time I have multiple goals in a scene, the particle clouds simply find a center point between the two goal objects, even if I have a picking session for each cloud and goal respectively. This also applies if I have 10 clouds and 10 separate goal objects.

They work individually:

Cloud #1: http://www.ryanmcdougal.com/CGTalk/Particles/Particle_Test_003a.avi

Cloud #2: http://www.ryanmcdougal.com/CGTalk/Particles/Particle_Test_003b.avi

...But not together :(

Together with both goals : http://www.ryanmcdougal.com/CGTalk/Particles/Particle_Test_003c.avi

Anyone have any ideas...is this possible..it seams a simple thing but just doesn't work. What am I missing?

Scene File: http://www.ryanmcdougal.com/CGTalk/Particles/Particle_Test_003c.scn

EDIT ------------------------

Btw, I know that I can have multiple "attractor forces" in a scene to achieve this but a goal has a bit more control in the type of flocking it can achieve with the surface, point or line attributes.

with separate attractor forces and respective particle clouds:
http://www.ryanmcdougal.com/CGTalk/Particles/Particle_Test_003d.avi (http://www.ryanmcdougal.com/CGTalk/Particles/Particle_Test_003c.avi)

Scene File: http://www.ryanmcdougal.com/CGTalk/Particles/Particle_Test_003d.scn (http://www.ryanmcdougal.com/CGTalk/Particles/Particle_Test_003c.scn)