Frosting Stoke

[oatz]

I am trying to frost a stoke simulation. The Stoke object doesn’t seem to be a valid target. So I tried a PRTLoader of the files and when I try to mesh that I get

ERR: BuildMesh: channel_map::end_channel_definition() - The channel Radius is Overlapping with channel Age

I’m on Frost 1.3.2 but I didn’t see anything in the release notes that higher versions added support for stoke.

If I disabled the Age channel from the distribution source I can load the PRT files. But I NEED the age to diminish the radius as it grows old.

EDIT: I was able to just use the normalizedAge channel. I’ll follow up after production is done and see if I can repro.

[Bobo]

You should be using Frost 1.3.5 (will work with the 1.2 license).

thinkboxsoftware.com/frost-release-history/

Frost 1.3.5
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 AT 12:19PM
What’s New
-New Age and LifeSpan channel handling. This affects Frost’s “Particle Size” → “Sync by” control.
In this new version, Age and LifeSpan channels are handled using float seconds for all particle sources. Previously, only RealFlow .BIN files used float seconds, and all other particle sources, including Thinkbox .PRT files, used integer ticks.
-Any source that uses an integer Age or LifeSpan channel will be converted from integer ticks to float seconds. A float Age or LifeSpan channel is assumed to be in seconds already and will not be converted.
-These changes are for compatibility with .PRT files written by new versions of Krakatoa (2.1.8+) and with other future plugins.
-Added support for upcoming Thinkbox particle source.

The last item was for Stoke - it wasn’t announced back in February 2013… I will change the wording.