Either way, I'd be very grateful for help!ġ) Transform of the objects at the particle location.Ģ) Delay the shape key of individual objects based on the birth time i.e., shape key animation starts when the particle is born.ģ) Then making objects visible only when they are alive.ġ) Here I have made a Group-Node which gives the instance amount per objects (say multiple ships) by keeping the total is equal to the total number of particles. I'd like to know how to substitute those removed nodes, or, if you're really proficient with AN, maybe you can figure out a better way to do this, as I must say, this node tree is pretty nuts, and I really don't know how to use AN at all tbh. Now, what I actually need help with is to find a way to make this work for the latest version of AN, which is I think 2.1.6, in addition to make this also work with a collection of objects as the particle instance, because in the tutorial, only a single object is used. You can see the full node tree here: ( source) (I've also highlighted the missing nodes) The nodes in particular that are needed that have been removed are the 'get particles' node, the 'particle list info' node, the 'object list' node and the 'float list' node. Now, I actually found the perfect video tutorial for this, it shows the solution to this exact problem, but it's for an older version of AN, and some particle related nodes have been removed, naturally. Some would be emitted already popped, which makes no sense.

Particle system, all popcorn would pop at the exact same time, meaning Popcorn after however many frames it's born. To start as a seed when it's 'emitted', and turn into an actual Now when I make a popcorn machine, I want each emitted popcorn

It's own animation when it's emitted, and not based on the timeline.Įxample: Let's say I modeled a piece of popcorn and have base shapekeyĪs just the corn seed, and another shapekey as the actual popcorn The problem is thatĪll of them play at the same time. Particles, each of them with shapekey animations. I'm using an instantiated collection(!) with 4 meshes in it as I've asked at least a dozen questions on this same problem I've had, and pretty much managed to filter out every singe idea to solve it, now I'm 100% certain AN is the only option.Īs I've already inquired about this issue, I'll paste parts of my older questions here to clarify what my issue is, so:

Vray particle birth time blender