Generating Particles on the surface of particles?

By JokerMartini · 2010-10-22

Description

Does anyone know of a way to generate particles on the surface of a particle?

For instance your particle system generates a sphere object and that sphere generates a 1000 particles evening across its surface.

Thanks

Comments (1)

Hani Tiby · 2010-11-06

There is 2 ways to work around:

FIRST: without scripting.

- Create your first particle system that generates the sphere
- create a mesher compound object
- point cache the mesher object
- at frame ZERO collapse the Mesher object BaseObject leaving the pointcache modifier active
last step:
- create a new particle system with a position object operator and pick the mesher.

SECOND:
- check Bobos' scripts on his blog
- see how he controlled atmospheric gizmos positions using a script operator in Pflow.
- do the same replacing the gizmos with your spheres.
- then make another particle system with a position object operator as mentioned above in option 1.

I hope that would help.
Hani