Particles and procedurals

[YoyoBoy]

I'm doing an animation of an asteroid field. I have some wonderful looking asteroids but I'm running into some big problems because all my materials are procedural.

Displacement doesn't work in a particle system, so you get around that by using a Mesher object and putting the displacement on that.

BUT

Procedurals don't work with the Mesher while things are moving around. You can't even get around it by putting a UVW map set to XYZ to UVW.

Anyone know if there's a way around this that doesn't involve getting off my lazy ass and taking the trouble to unwrap and bake all my lovely asteroids?

Thanks!

[jordanw]

Here is a method I use for distributing vray proxies with pflow. You could do the same with your asteroids with vrayDisplacementMod on them
http://www.orbaz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1898

It works well, but its a bit annoying having to bake the particles every time you want to render.

[YoyoBoy]

Thanks. That's a pretty cool tool.

I ended up solving mt problem by just making tons of copies (600, "hero" asteroids) and I used Neil Blevins' Transform Randomizer to animate them as a group.

[PsychoSilence]

i recorded a video tutorial on that topic as well for evermotion.org

http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/...ow-treeproxies

hope it helps.