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Procedures
To create emitter icons:
■ Drag in a viewport to set the size and orientation of the particle emitter
icon for Spray, Snow, Super Spray, Blizzard, and Particle Cloud.
Spray, Snow, Blizzard, and Particle Cloud use the icon size as the area of
particle emission. Super Spray emits particles from its center regardless of
its icon size.
All particle systems align the particle direction with the Z axis of the
creation grid.
To create placeholder icons:
1 Drag in a viewport to set the size of the placeholder icon for Particle Array
and Particle Cloud.
The size and location of the particle system icon has no effect on the
particles.
2 After placing the particle system icon, click Pick Object on the Basic
Parameters rollout to select the object to use as the particle emitter.
Using Materials with Particle Array
The material that appears on the particles comes from one of three places:
■ The particle system itself
■ The material assigned to the distribution object (PArray only)
■ The material assigned to the instanced objects
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