Animated wind values only affect new particles
Greg Platt asked 6 years ago
If I have an emitter emitting particles with the wind force applied and I change the wind amount over time, those changes will only affect new particles born after the value changed instead of all the particles currently in the scene. Is there a way to get the wind animation to affect all particles so I can adjust wind values on the fly?
admin Staff answered 6 years ago
The animation you describe requires simulation, luckily we just added this to our latest release. If you wish to just fake it, you could try to animate a turbulence node position value to move all the particles.
Greg answered 6 years ago
Possible that I’m not explaining it right but it shouldn’t require simulation. This is the way trapcode Particular wind has functioned for years. Basically just applies a directional force to all the current particles. I don’t know if stardust’s wind force is intended to be different though. Either way I am incredibly excited to check out the simulation update! If it can affect all particles and also take into account inertia, it’ll be the best of both worlds!
mico answered 2 years ago
I am currently encountering the same problem. I am moving the light emitter from the front to the back and animating the wind Z in the process, but the old particles are not being affected by the new wind. I have looked here and tried everything I could think of but could not get it to work. Please help me as clearly as possible.