Perhaps this thread will help

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/OpenSourceFilmmaker/discussions/0/810925579970995145/

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

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

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.

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..

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

That worked a treat, thanks!

Nice, I tried importing and failed.

Any chance you could share what you did?

Hi, I'm making a poster for a friend and I'm stuck on something which is probably trival.

So the shot I want to take is at 1.15s in the clip, and I want to have the cloudy full moon effect on a hat. Thing is, that effect takes a few seconds to fully "bake" and as such looks weird on the shot at 1.125s.

I've tried editing the particle properties but I'm not getting anywhere.


Anyone got a fix? I'd be very grateful!