Another set of videos that I meant ot upload a little while ago. These are some of the last of the legacy particle tutorials that I needed to construct. This is an attempt to use this week to see if I can catch up with some of the things I needed to do to get back on track. It's taking its time but I am gradually getting there.
The conditional goals tutorial was relatively smooth to do although initially I had some trouble as while for a time the animation worked, it didn't correspond to the locator and particles would gather at the base after dropping off. That was until I realised my scripting error regarding connecting the particles' freedom to drop to the position of the locator, as I missed out the inclusion of a y vector i none of the parameters - a simple fix and everything is good and a charming reminded that all it takes is one small typing error to make a piece of software act crazy.
A long-overdue workshop video that I needed to publish. Things got quite busy in the past couple of weeks of the last term and only recently have I managed to find time to render this out.
The thing that got me most while working on this was that the goal weight had to be fine tuned. Too little and only a few would be drawn, and they would scatter like leaves in the wind. Too much weight and they'd lose their initial scatter. In particular I found myself tweaking around final weights of 0.10 to 0.15
I used today to catch up with the Maya tutorials I had not completed. They took a little longer than planned due to the involvement of render times. Nonetheless I feel I have been able to catch up for tomorrow.
