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niklz 26 May, 2013 @ 5:29am
Moving particles not rendering properly for a poster
Hi there,

I'm having an issue with a poster I am making. I have a rocket trail which is locked to an animated rocket. In the preview the particles look great, but when I come to render a poster out of SFM the particles 'drop' all the motion data, and look as if they have been non-moving for the duration of the motion.


I hope I explained that adequately, I would really appreciate some help on this.

Kind regards
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Sync 26 May, 2013 @ 6:07am 
You should drag the 'playhead' preset instead of 'zero' preset.
After you dragged 'playhead' preset it should look like this.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=133116968
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niklz 26 May, 2013 @ 6:14am 
Thanks for your quick reply, however I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Could you please clarify? I don't use the zero preset, and dragging the playhead preset before rendering does nothing. It's clear from your poster you got this to work, so I must be doing something silly here..
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Sync 26 May, 2013 @ 6:25am 
When you lock the particle onto the rocket, drag the 'playhead' preset to the right and the motion path will appear with the rocket.
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niklz 26 May, 2013 @ 6:49am 
Sorry I think you've misunderstood my question. The problem is not locking the smoke to the rocket, that works great. The problem is when I render a poster the particles do not look like they do in the preview, they look as if they're not moving while in the animation editor they clearly are.
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Sync 26 May, 2013 @ 6:59am 
I forgot to mention that you should try unlocking after you did the 'playhead' preset.
See if it works.
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niklz 26 May, 2013 @ 7:10am 
Unlocking them didn't help either :((

I have made an album of the difference in the preview window and final render, hopefully this might serve to illustrate my problem better.

Here it is: http://imgur.com/eWQALe4,nuRK6g0#0
Last edited by niklz; 26 May, 2013 @ 7:13am
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niklz 26 May, 2013 @ 8:39am 
Ok so good news! I fixed my bug. Not sure if this is a fix or a workaround but I think the route of my problem is that I wasn't animating the controlpoint0 element of the rocketrail appropriately.

So for future people finding this page via a google search. Try animating JUST the controlpoint0 element in the animation set editor, I left the route transform where it was at t = 0.

Thanks for the help Sync
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ASZ20 26 May, 2013 @ 9:18am 
Yes, if you are animating a particle, only animate controlpoint0.
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