Comments on: Py4D Examples – particle party

By: ƒede

ƒede — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:01:52 +0000

Thanks guys, i’m starting with python, i’m c4d user I’ll try my best!

By: flashgordon

flashgordon — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:43:31 +0000

Thanks nux95, but actually I am Jan, Sebastian Rath is the hell of a chap behind the C4D python module

I rendered the strange attractor example by blending four videos with a different seed, thus multiplying the amount of particles my system could manage – take a look at the linked post for more details.

By: flashgordon

flashgordon — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:37:18 +0000

That attractor looks really cool, I think I even saw some stars escaping the core and merging with one of the spiral arms again – sweet.

And yes, you can just write “tp” to import that module.

Cheers!

By: astrowhiz

astrowhiz — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:25:48 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I’ve been looking through the documentation all day and trying those commands but didn’t have any luck. There’s probably something in the syntax I’m screwing up cos I’ve just started using python with C4D. I was slightly confused by the commands & arguments in the docs. In your example you just used tp. etc, is tp defined as the master system? Anyway I ended up creating two scenes and used mograph to place polys on the particles, then baked all frames and merged the scenes together. Here’s the prelim video http://cid-a0eb6ea5c61306dc.photos.live.com/self.aspx/galaxy%20formation/Clouds.wmv

The xyz positions were output from a Fortran program I’m writing which simulates galaxy formation.

By: nux95

nux95 — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:36:38 +0000

Hi Sebastian, great thing there

But I have another question: How did you render the Particles in the last example ?

thanks in advance, nux

By: flashgordon

flashgordon — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:38:12 +0000

Hi astrowhiz,

that sounds pretty interesting, would love to see the result.

If you take a look at the ‘TP_MasterSystem’ class from the ‘thinkingparticles’ module in the documentation, you will find ‘AllocParticleGroup()’ and ‘SetGroup(particle_ID, group)’.

Hope that helps

By: astrowhiz

astrowhiz — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:54:29 +0000

Love the website. Really great examples. I’m trying to use the particle party script for a project simulating star formation in a galaxy. I’m stuck on how to assign the created particles to seperate groups as I require two sets of particles. If you had any ideas that would be great

By: Giuliano

Giuliano — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:42:08 +0000

Thank for sharing, i’m little confuse with the use of python in c4d, after 4 hours of excersices, i was able only to load a cube!
but i don’t surrender!

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