"Momentum"? Stoke particles always slow down

[joescarr]

quite likely I’m missing some core concept that would explain this…

but I imagine users might want to the see the Stoke particles continue their motion with a sort of “momentum” effect where the Stoke particle continues a vector pattern once it is no longer affected by Velocity Field particles.

e.g. typical atomic explosion where the particles continue curling and curling, repeating a similar motion until interrupted.

another question in relation to this is why do the Stoke particles seem to slow down so quickly? when a Velocity Field particle passes by a Stoke particle it pushes it around, but the Stoke particle seems to want to keep its last position instead of having any momentum at all. Is this by design?

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[Chad]

If I’m understanding correctly, then yes, by design. It’s a velocity field, so if the particle moves into a part of the field where the velocity magnitude is zero, the particle will freeze.

So the goal would be for you to set up the velocity field such that you provide those velocities, e.g. your atomic explosion.

Manually overriding the interaction between the fields and the particles is more in the scope of Ember, not Stoke.