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Use Dynamic Names When on, action names in events are followed by their
most important setting or settings, in parentheses. When off, only the names
appear. Default=on.
Particle View Event Display
Select a Particle Flow source icon. > Modify panel > Setup rollout > Click
Particle View (or press 6).
Create panel > Geometry > Particle Systems > Object Type rollout > Click PF
Source. > Setup rollout > Click Particle View (or press 6).
The
event display on page 7968 in Particle View contains the particle diagram,
and provides a complete range of intuitive functions for editing the particle
system.
NOTE A number of these functions are also available from the event display
right-click menu
on page 2825, as well as the menu bar on page 2813.
Editing the Particle Diagram and Particle System
Interactive functionality in event display includes the following:
General
■ To add an action to the particle system, drag it from the depot to the event
display. If you drop it in an empty area of the event display, it creates a
new event. If you drag it to an existing event, the result depends on whether
a red line or a blue line appears when you drop it. If a red line, the new
action replaces the underlying action. If a blue line, the action is inserted
in the list.
■ To edit an action's parameters, click its name in an event. The parameters
appear on the right side of Particle View. If not, it means the parameters
panel is hidden; to display it, choose Display menu > Parameters.
■
To wire a test to an event, drag from its test output, the
blue dot that by default sticks out to the left of the test, to the event's event
input, which sticks out from the top, or vice-versa. Similarly, you can wire
a global event to a birth event by dragging between the source output on
the bottom of the global event and the event input. The mouse cursor
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