pflow linker dummy question

Krakatoa for 3ds Max
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hello,

This is slightly off topic but I hope someone can help. I have created a script that automatically creates a fumeFX box for my particle system. However when the script creates the box the velocity saved out from the sim does not affect the velocity of my particles. when I create the fume box with the normal drag out method in max then the velocities are applied. I am not sure why this is. I think it has something to do with a plow linker dummy that is made at creation time when I use the Max method as when done with the script it does not create this dummy. I have not been able to find any documentation on how this works in scripting so I thought I would ask and see if anyone has knowledge of or documentation on how I can get this to work with scripting.

Thanks!

-Christian

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Just to be on the safer side - when you create a FumeFX grid manually OR by MAXScript, do you have the Velocity channel added to the “Exporting Channels” list under the “Output” rollout? Without Velocity, no particles can be advected.

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when I create the ffx box manually I manually set it to export velocity. When I do it with the scripting method I do it manually as well. I can try setting it up when I create the box with the script and see if that does anything. I will try that and let you know.

-Christian