Painting a texture using particles ?

[stevesideas]

Does anyone know of a way to paint particles onto a plane by using particles ? Basically everytime a particle hits the plane that area gets turned from black to white ? I was thinking vertex paint would probably work here but I'm not sure how to get that modifier to communicate with the particles.

[YoyoBoy]

Aaarrrgh! A couple years ago someone posted a script on SciptSpot that did exactly that, but I can't find it! And I remember it well, partly because it was such a brilliant script but it had a demo video with the most un-enthusiastic narration I've ever heard.

[YoyoBoy]

Found it! But all the links are broken.
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sc...-texture-maker

[YoyoBoy]

Oh, here it is: http://www.maximcapra.com/?page_id=81

[stevesideas]

Thanks very much for this. The description for that script actually made me realise I was looking for something that produced wet maps and lead me to here: http://www.allanmckay.com/site/index...gacy-tutorials

[joconnell]

Or if you run them along edges only, you get a nice automated mask for dirt and scratches.