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Non-Event-Driven Particle Systems ....................... 233
Using Particle Systems......................................... 234
Creating a Non-Event-Driven Particle System ....... 234
Creating a Particle Emitter...................................... 235
Using Materials w it h Particle Array........................ 235
Achieving Particle Motion Blur ....................... ....... 236
Using Mapped Materials with Particle Systems...... 236
Using Multi/Sub-Object Materials with Particle
Systems ............................................. .................... 238
Using Spawned Particles . ........................................ 238
Using Interparticle Collision................................... 239
Spray Particle System .............................................. 240
Snow Particle System................. .............................. 242
Super Spray Par ticle System .................................... 245
Blizzard Particle System .......................................... 247
PCloud Particle System ........................................... 249
PArray Particle System ......................................... 252
PArray Particle System ............................................ 252
Basic Parameters Rollout (PArray) ..... ................ .... 254
Particle Generation Rollout..................................... 256
Particle Type Rollout............................................... 258
Rotation and Collision Rollout ............................... 264
Object Motion Inheritance Rollout........... .............. 265
Bubble Motion Rollout............................................ 266
Particle Spawn Rollout ............................................ 267
Load/Save Presets Rollout ....................................... 270
12 Animation................................................. 271
Creating Animation ................................................ 271
Animation Concepts and Methods...................... 271
Animation Concepts and Methods......................... 271
Animation Concepts ............................................... 272
Using Auto Key Mode ........................................... 274
Using Set Key Mode ................................................ 275
Spinner Right-Click Menu ...................................... 278
Viewing and Copying Transform Keys................... 279
Controlling Time..................................................... 281
Setting Time Segments............................................ 282
Moving Through Time..................................... ....... 282
Choosing a Frame Rate and Playback Speed .......... 283
Work ing with Controllers..................................... 284
Working with Controllers ............................. .......... 284
Understanding Controllers ..................................... 285
Changing Controller Proper ties.............................. 286
Assigning Controllers.............................................. 287
Specifying Default Controllers................................ 289
General-Purpose C ontrollers.................................. 290
Special-Purpose Controllers ................................... 291
Explicit Axis Keys...................................... .............. 292
Float Controllers............................... ....................... 292
Controlling Transforms ........................................... 293
Controlling Position.......................................... ...... 293
Controlling Rotation ............................................... 294
Controlling Colors .................................................. 294
Morph Controllers .................................................. 295
Motion Panel Commands ..................................... 296
Trajectories .............................................................. 296
PRS Parameters Rollout .......................................... 298
Key Info (Basic) Rollout/Dialog.............................. 299
Tangent Types.......................................................... 300
Key Info (Advanced) Rollout/Dialog...................... 301
Animation Controllers.......................................... 302
Animation Controllers............................................ 302
Audio Controller ..................................................... 303
Barycentric Morph Controller................................ 304
Bezier Controllers.................................................... 305
Block Controller ...................................................... 307
Boolean Controller.................................................. 310
Color RGB Controller (Point3 XYZ Controller) .... 311
Euler XYZ Rotation Controller............................... 312
Expression Controller ........................................... 315
Expression Controller ............................................. 315
Expression Controller Techniques................ .......... 318
Limit Controller ............................ .......................... 319
Linear Controller..................................................... 325
List Controller ......................................................... 326
Local Euler XYZ Rotation Controller ..................... 328
Look At Controller .................................. ................ 329
Master Point C ontroller........................................... 330
Motion Capture Controller..................................... 331
Noise Controller ............................................ .......... 337
On/Off Controller ........ ........................................... 339
Position XYZ Controller ......................................... 340
PRS Controller..................... .................................... 341
Reaction Controllers............................................. 342
Reaction Controllers ........... .................................... 342
Reaction Manager Dialog........................................ 345
Using Manipulators with Reaction Controllers ...... 353
Scale XYZ Controller............................................... 355
Script Controller...................................................... 356
Smooth Rotation Controller ................................... 359
Spring Controller................. .................................... 359
TCB Controllers ...................................................... 361
Transform Script Controller.................................... 364
Waveform Controller .............................................. 366
Controller Subdialogs .......................................... 368
Audio Controller Dialog ......................... ................ 368
Att ach Controls Dialog (Block Controller) ............ 370