banding in particle motion

Krakatoa for 3ds Max
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Hey,

I’ve got a character emmitting particles using a basic birth texture and a few wind forces to control particle motion. Here is my problem I’ve set the birth texture precision to 1/8 frame as well as on my pflow global operator but I’m still getting banding in the particle motion as if subframe sampling isn’t on ( I’m using a procedural texture on the birth texture so it should be able to sample subframe at birth ). The particles aren’t moving that quickly either. Is there any way that I can fix this using Krakatoa?! I’ve tried just about everything in Pflow I can think of ( adding variation to particle inheritance/adding divergence/ adding mutiple particle spawns from the birth texture with variations and such ). Help!

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Are you sure your character’s movement is able to be sampled correctly at 1/8?

Do you have Box#3?

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1)Hmmmmm the characrer is geo with a pointoven .mdd applied. So, I guess not :stuck_out_tongue: Does that explain why 1/8 subframe sampling in pflow doesn’t have any effect? There is a spline interpolation mode for pointoven. Ill try and that and see if it helps. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

  1. Yes, we have box#3 at the studio, but I don’t have any experience with it yet.