Export Radius Channel from TP

Krakatoa for 3ds Max
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I’m running into this problem when using Thinking Particles and Frost. Frost can see that I have a radius channel and scales correctly. The problem is that I want to export the particles that it’s reading to mesh them a different way - but using the Radius channel. In the Krakatoa “Save Channels” Rollout, there is no Save Radius Option.

Is the Radius just stored into the ID Channel?

I exported the “Scale” channel. I’m trying in Magma to have it read a particle ID along with the scale and output it into a Radius but I can’t really figure out how to go about it either.

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You’ll need to add the Radius channel to Krakatoa’s list of “Particle Channels To Save To Disk”.

In the Krakatoa dialog’s “Save Particles” rollout, find the “Edit Custom Save Channels” group. Type “Radius” (without the quotes) into the text box, the set dropdown boxes to “float16” (or float32) and “1”, and then press the “+” button. Next, move the new “Radius” channel into the “Save Channels” column. Finally, try re-saving the particle sequence.

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Paul, thank youuu! This has been wracking my brain for a better part of a week. I tried searching through this forum and others. I just couldn’t find an answer to this. It worked! Thanks!

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Also, keep in mind the channel name is case sensitive :slight_smile: If you don’t want to use custom channels, you can name your TP datachannels as some of the preset ones - MXSVector, for example, and if you add them to the save list, they’ll get picked up.