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Hey guys,
I?ve been playing around with the discharge modifiers.
I?ve got a debris setup, where I emit smoke from flying debris made with a PFlow.
Once the debris hits the ground, it should of course stop emitting smoke.
So I linked a parameter modifier to the discharge slot of the source.
But I couldn?t quite figure out how to properly manipulate the curves to do what I wanted them to do: reduce the emitted amount of smoke emitted based on the speed of the debris.
I found a script for particle flow to display the speed of the particles, since before that I had no idea what values to put in the discharge modifier, as soon as I added one for speed, the discharge just seemed to be zero.
As far as I understand the X value corresponds with the speed, since I can enter pretty much any number there, while the Y value corresponds to the multiplier (1=full discharge, lower values = discharge multiplied/divided by the lower value).
So I put the first X value at the maximum speed I could read from the PFlow script and put the Y value to 1 there. I added another point to where the discharge should start do decline and then another value at the zero speed, where Y would also be zero.
But it still looks not quite like I would imagine it and the overall emission seems to be too low.
So I just wanted to check, if I understood correctly how this works, before experimenting more with dfferent values.
I?ve been playing around with the discharge modifiers.
I?ve got a debris setup, where I emit smoke from flying debris made with a PFlow.
Once the debris hits the ground, it should of course stop emitting smoke.
So I linked a parameter modifier to the discharge slot of the source.
But I couldn?t quite figure out how to properly manipulate the curves to do what I wanted them to do: reduce the emitted amount of smoke emitted based on the speed of the debris.
I found a script for particle flow to display the speed of the particles, since before that I had no idea what values to put in the discharge modifier, as soon as I added one for speed, the discharge just seemed to be zero.
As far as I understand the X value corresponds with the speed, since I can enter pretty much any number there, while the Y value corresponds to the multiplier (1=full discharge, lower values = discharge multiplied/divided by the lower value).
So I put the first X value at the maximum speed I could read from the PFlow script and put the Y value to 1 there. I added another point to where the discharge should start do decline and then another value at the zero speed, where Y would also be zero.
But it still looks not quite like I would imagine it and the overall emission seems to be too low.
So I just wanted to check, if I understood correctly how this works, before experimenting more with dfferent values.
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