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Edit attributes of emitted particles
Work with emitters
Connect emitters and particles
Duplicate emitters
You
can duplicate an emitter to reproduce the emission elsewhere. For
example, you can create an emitter that makes a cloud of particles,
then create an identical cloud elsewhere in the scene. You can make
the duplicate with or without the original’s connections to dynamic
effects such as fields. Expressions applied to the emitted particles
are not duplicated.
To duplicate an emitter with connections
to dynamic effects
- Select the emitting object (or positional
emitter) and the emitted particle object.
- Select
Edit > Duplicate Special > .
- In the Duplicate Special Options window,
turn on Duplicate Input Connections.
- Click Duplicate Special.
- Drag the copied emitted particles and the
copied emitting object away from the originals.
To duplicate an emitter without connections
to dynamic effects
- Select the emitting object (or positional
emitter) and the emitted particle object.
- Select
Edit > Duplicate Special > .
- In the Duplicate Special Options window,
click Edit > Reset Settings to turn
on default options.
- Click Duplicate Special.
- Select
Particles > Connect To Time.
Emitters
have a hidden Current Time attribute. For
an emitter to work when you play an animation, it needs an incoming
connection to its Current Time attribute. By
default, the input to Current Time is
provided by the scene’s predefined time variable. (See
Understand the Current Time attribute for
details.)
If you select Edit
> Duplicate with default options, it doesn’t copy
incoming connections to the new object, so its dynamics don’t work.
This is why you select
Particles > Connect To Time.
- Drag the copied emitted particles and the copied
emitting object away from the originals.
NoteThe
Seed number of the duplicate emitted particle object is the same as
the original. The duplicate’s emission randomness is therefore identical
to the original, by default. For details on changing the randomness
of emission, see
Work with emission randomness.