Particles Local Orientation outwards - How to?

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Video demo here. Rob shares a scene relating to an inquiry by si-community user Maximus: I've setup this and now i want every single particle (instance) to point outwards locally, not all together. I tried to modify the particle orientation but everything i do is done on all particles not on single also i cant find a way to have a proper orientation.I am having this problem quite often and would be nice to create a compound that works once for all. [..]

Continue reading in the si-community thread which seems to provide a few additional solutions to Maximus' question.

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Daniel Brassard
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Re: Particles Local Orientation outwards - How to?

Post by Daniel Brassard » 06 Sep 2012, 16:46

Small instance, close to the center. As it is moving outward, the particle rotate outward, get larger and move down the "stem" while new particles appear at the center.
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Re: Particles Local Orientation outwards - How to?

Post by Tekano » 06 Sep 2012, 16:53

what? I dont get it - this is what points 2 & 3 already do! oh, unless you mean as the Fibonacci sequence is growing? Am not sure about that because I borrowed the Fibonacci compound made by Cesar Saez from here http://traypen.com/rr/bak/cesar/Fibonac ... Number.rar found on http://rray.de and think it just generates them all at once rather than over time

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Re: Particles Local Orientation outwards - How to?

Post by Tekano » 07 Sep 2012, 00:53

sorta like this? not sure what your talking about from stem but heres it growing, tilting and spreading from a keyframed fibonnaci pattern growth

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