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Fantastic. I love it. Can't wait to play with it

Oh nice!

This is awesome.

Wow really powerful!

Brilliant, attractors and deflectors was one of the things I asked for when you posted for suggestions, really pleased to see this in there. Nice work Chris and cool videoblog.

 

Really nice video. The particles look briljant. Josh did a good job hiring you.

You are spoiling us with these new toys.

Thanks guys! I'll try to keep up with my updates!

Brilliant, attractors and deflectors was one of the things I asked for when you posted for suggestions, really pleased to see this in there. Nice work Chris and cool videoblog.

 

it looks more like attractors and anti-attractors... not really a deflector... but maybe that aspect wasn't shown in the video. My idea of a deflector would be something like smoke going up until it hit an overhang then being deflected to move around it to maintain an upward movement. What the video appears to show is its all or nothing direction control towards or away from the attractor. But maybe Chris is sandbagging and doesn't want to show that the particles will work with multiple attractors at the same time and the effect the attractor has is based on particle proximity to it. Or something like that. Still looks great though and much better than the LE2 implementation.

Nice work, Chris! Good to see the progress.

Hope to see more of this sooon.

Quick question...will we be able to create our particles visually? ?

 

Cheers

Nice work!

The whole particle thing is going to be great.

I really like it

Hope to see the final thing myself and have a chance to play with it soon.

Love it.

@Maccklebee ... hard to say from the example in the video but yes; the example you give would be a typical use of a deflector.

 

I'm assuming at this point that combinations of multiple attractors/deflectors would allow this type of behaviour.

We still got a long way to go, but yeah I hope they do include deflectors. Good job Chris.

So the video only showcased the Attractor class and the manipulation of its "force" member (when positive it attracts, negative repels). Particles will work with multiple attractors, I really should have showed that off.

 

As for deflectors, the description of the smoke under an overhang would be a good example of physics based particles. Which sadly are not implemented as of yet but I will look into it.

 

@ChrisV: The particle system and attractors will be in the editor and will appear in the viewport. (I'm not sure if this answers your question...)