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Emitting particles from instances

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Suppose you want to emit particles from the instances in a point cloud. For example, suppose you have a point cloud of instances of a BigFish model, and you want to emit little fish from each BigFish instance.

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One simple approach is to set up a point cloud on your master BigFish instance, and do the emitting there.

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Then when you emit the point cloud of BigFish instances, use InstanceShape instead of Set Instance Geometry.

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[Tip] Decluttering your XSI browser Add-on Paths

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If you’ve got a lot of add-ons, you probably have a bit of clutter in the browser Paths menu. Like this:
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You can get rid of all those add-ons by cleaning out the Addons/InstalledAddons folders in your User and Workgroup locations. Softimage checks those folders (at startup) to build the list of add-ons for the Paths menu.

Don’t worry; removing the .xsiaddon files from the InstalledAddons folder doesn’t uninstall the addons.

Friday Flashback #170

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SOFTIMAGE Creative Environment User Guide
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Apparently that creature on the cover is known as Creeps (note: link is to a youtube video that isn’t available in my country).
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Note the names of the books in the background: “How to be a Genius”, “How to cook a Dinosaur”, and “The Complete DNA”.

Also, what’s up with a “User Guide” being labelled a “Comprehensive Reference Guide” ?