particle instance/proxy reqeust

[ronald_a]

hi,

i would love to be able to playback the animation of a proxy mesh instanced to particles with the help of a custom (per particle) attribute.
the custom attribute would describe the frame of the proxyanimation so every particle could potentially show a different frame of the proxy's animation and a hundred flying birds would not all have the same movement.

this would be awesome!

thanks,

Ronny

[vlado]

Yes, it has been requested before, but for the moment the best thing to do is to import the proxy several times with different offsets and instance the proxies randomly over the particles.

Best regards,
Vlado

[jop]

check this :
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...Vray-Proxies-)

[Morbid Angel]

Ronald, there is a plugin called vray scatter, its available for maya, if you have to do things like scatter proxies with animation, its really good for that.