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Use Sof t Sel ection—
If soft selection has been used
on geometry you add to the blobmesh, turning on
this option causes the soft selection to be used for
the size and placement of metaballs. Metaballs
areplacedatselectedverticeswiththesizesetby
the Size parameter. For vertices that lie within the
falloff set on the geometry’s Soft Selection rollout,
smaller metaballs are placed. For vertices outside
the falloff, no metaballs are placed. This option has
an effect only if the Vertex sub-object level for the
geometr y is st i l l enabled, and Use Soft S election
on the geometry’s Soft Selection rollout is turned
on. If Use Soft Selection is turned off either for the
blobmesh for the geometry, metaballs are placed at
all vertices on the geometry. Default=Off.
Min Size—Sets the minimum size for metaballs
w ithin the fal loff when Use Soft S election is tur n ed
on. Default=10.0.
Pick —Allows you to pick objects or particle
systems from the screen to add to the blobmesh.
Add—Displays a selection dia log where you can
select objects or particle systems to add to the
blobmesh.
Remove—Removes objects or particles from the
blobmesh.
Par ticle Flow Parameters rollout
UsethisrolloutifyouhaveaddedaParticleFlow
system to the blobmesh, and want par ticles to
generate metaballs only during specific events.
Beforeyoucanspecifyeventsonthisrollout,you
must add the Particle Flow system to the blobmesh
on the Parameters rollout.
All Par ticle Flow Events—When turned on, a ll
Particle Flow Events will generate metaballs. When
turned off, only Particle Flow Events spe cified in
the PFlow Events list will generate metaballs.
Add—Displays a list of PFlow events in the s cene so
you can pick events to add to the PFlow Events list.
Remove—Removes the selected event from t he
PFlow Events list.