How can i use the multiply particles option in maya?

Deprecated Krakatoa Maya Beta Discussion
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I’m particle simulation drived by a fluid simulation, i get the particles rendered, but how can i multiply the number of particles at render with that simulation?

Cheers.

2

We have not allowed a way to multiply the number of particles in Maya currently.

It is a feature we may add in the future. Krakatoa for Python has the ability to do this somewhat, so we may add it to the Maya renderer eventually.

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Can i use Krakatoa for phyton instead of the maya plugin?

This was one of the most interesting features i heard of.

Cheers.

EDIT: Also, since it’s an external version, i should be able to use it under Maya 2013 without using a plugin, right?

EDIT: AUTOANsWER: OK, no i can’t, it has a plugin too, i tried and i saw it :slight_smile: Cheers.

4

juang,

do you mean to create a partition with lots of particles that are advected by a main fume sim?

this is possible of course with max/fume/pflow(or tp) fumeFollow operator, and then saving out 100 partitions each with randomseed

not sure there is a fumeFollow operator for maya particles, that would be great though

conrad, are you saying its not currently possible to create partitions in maya with krakatoa?

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Ian,

We are talking about a feature of Krakatoa SR that takes a few particles and creates a lot more, similar to the Krakatoa>Frost>PRT Volume approach we used in KMX, but without any additional meshing. KSR simply builds the data internally and creates millions of particles in a blobby-looking cloud out of a few thousands. This feature is currently unique to Krakatoa SR and is not exposed in Krakatoa MX or Krakatoa MY yet, but it should be :slight_smile:

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you can create partitions in maya by scripting, although we will work on a soution with krakatoa maya.

however, in krakatoa SR we have a particle multiplication method to add more particles at render time IN KRAKATOA SR. it is on the roadmap to expose this feature in the maya interface in krakatoa maya [and later in krakatoa mx]

cb

7

oh nice

i like it

lets get it 4max :slight_smile:

frost 4 maya would be sweeet tooo

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We are working on this feature right now, including the ability to control the radius per particle (using the same Radius channel Frost supports), and to define a falloff from the center to the surface of the “blob” (as shown in my original Frost+Krakatoa tests, but without using MagmaFlow).