Specific Attributes

Quick Tips

Features

• Sample a static, skinned, or blendshaped mesh for the emitter shape
  to generate the Blue Aura effect.
• Smoke textures can be replaced.

• Move the emitter spread the particles around.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.
• You can change out the texture for the emitted particles.

• Move the emitter around to generate the Cast Ice Ball effect.
• Re-simulate the effect if the trail no longer follows the emitter
  (hotkey: Shift-S).
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.
• The mesh for the ice ball can be replaced.

• Move the emitter around to generate the Cast Meteor effect.
• Re-simulate the effect if the trail no longer follows the emitter
  (hotkey: Shift-S).
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.
• The mesh for the ice ball can be replaced.

• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• The Lightning strokes will emit toward all physics-enabled meshes in
  the scene.
• Adjust Spread to determine the size of the cone to shrink or expand
  the space in which the lightning strokes will spawn and fan out.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• Change out the Particle texture to alter the shape of the orbs.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• Place the emitter at the scene root position at world-space
  coordinate of (0,0,0) and make sure to not move it by accident.
• Sample a static mesh for the emitter shape for the sparkles
  to revolve around.
• Make sure to place the sampled mesh at a set position and do not
  move it.
• Modify the Moving Direction to direct the sparkles in a single direction.

• Trail and Dust textures can be replaced.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• The dragon head mesh can be replaced.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• You can change out the Fire texture, adjust the Fire Colors and
  Spark Flux.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• You can change out the Line texture, adjust the Line Colors and
  Flow Speed.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• The particles will gravitate toward all physics-enabled meshes in
  the scene.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• Sample a static, skinned, or blendshaped mesh for the emitter shape.
• The number of particles is determined by the velocity of the movement
  speed or mesh animation.
• Adjust the Speed Threshold to control the rate of emission. The emitter
  will keep spawning particles when the Speed Threshold is set too low,
  even when the sampled shape is motionless.

• Move the emitter around to generate a spell trail.
• Faster moving emitters create longer elongated trails.
• Set Head Opacity to 0 to hide the head of the spell.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• The SpawnMask image is partitioned into 3 parts:
  Red color: determines the areas of emission for Stream Red.
  Green color: determines the areas of emission for Stream Green.
  Blue color: determines the areas of emission for Stream Blue.
• The placement of each stream is based on the colors of the
  SpawnMask and the uvs of the sampled emitter shape.

Specific Attributes

Quick Tips

Features

• Emit the butterflies from the position of the emitter by default or
  define a custom volume.
• Butterflies can land on physics-enabled surfaces upon collision.
• Set Flux to 0 to stop the emission.
• You can change the butterly color and textures then respawn them
  in the new look by re-adjusting the Flux parameter.

• Attach mutliple Car Dust particle effects to different parts
  of the car.
• Adjust the Part combo box to correspond with the proper section of
  the vehicle: left wheel, right wheel, left side, right side.

• Place the particle emitter at root position of (0,0,0) in world-space
  coordinates and makes sure to not move it by accident.
• Sample a static mesh for the insects to crawl on and makes sure to
  not move it.
    - Aternatively, you can apply Crawl on Mesh prop into the scene
      to include the human bust along with the particle effect.
    - Make sure to place this prop at the scene root position of (0,0,0) in
      world-space coordinates, otherwise, the particles will not emit.
    - You can find this prop in Content Manager > Prop > PopcornFX >
      PopcornFX Library 40 > Craw on Mesh.iProp.
• The red region(s) on the RoachIMG and AntIMG textures determine
  the points of emission.
• Replace the texture for the ant and the mesh for the roach to change
  the look of the particle effect.
• Adjust Height Offset in order to match the crawling position of the
  insects to the mesh surface.
• Adjust Move Force to modify the moving direction for all of the insects.

• Sample a static, skinned, or blendshaped mesh to change the emitter
  shape.
• The amound of water increases with the speed of the sampled object's
  motion or the animation for the sampled mesh.
• Adjust the Speed Threshold to control the sensitivity to the motion and
  animation of the sampled mesh.

• Both particle effects must be adjusted in tandem to create the proper
  visual result.
• * Flow Move - Leaves: both the emitter and physics plane must be
     zeroed out in the Z axis.
  * Flow Move - Dummy is used to drive the main moving force.
• Move the Flow Move - Dummy emitter to push away the leaves and
  make them blow around it's movement direction.
• Use gravity to control the falling speed of the flowing leaves.

• Sample a static, skinned, or blendshaped mesh for the emitter shape.
• Note: single-uv meshes are recommended; Multiple UVs and
  multi-textures can cause unexpected results.
• Some attributes require re-simulation for the changes to take effect
  such as Particles Per Surface Unit and Particles Per Strand
  (shortcut: Shift-S).
• Use Color_Map_on_Mesh to assign a color texture for the fur.
• Use Texture_for_Emission to control aspects of the fur:
  Red channel: length
  Green channel: thickness
  Blue channel: vertical resistance
  Alpha channel: damping

• Rain drops will generate ripples and splashes when they strike the
  collision-enabled ground.
• The Rain drop textures can be replaced.

• Water droplets will spawn from the emitter's position and bounce off
  of physics-enabled objects (one-way simulation).
• Adjust the Elasticity parameter for the iClone physics object to
  strengthen or weaken the magnitude of the bounce.
• Rotate the emitter to chane the direction of the particle emission.

Specific Attributes

Quick Tips

Features

• You can replace the textures for the smoke, debris and ground dust.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

• Sample a static, skinned, or blendshaped mesh for the emitter shape
  to generate the burning flames.
• Fire textures can be replaced.

• Move the emitter around to generate a particle trail.
• Adjust Emit Duration to prolong or shorten the time it takes to set
  the path on fire.
• Adjust Fire Lifetime to prolong or shorten the lifespan of the fire
  particles.

• Firearm is comprised of several particle effects including flash,
  bullet, vortex, collision decal, smoke and bouncing debris.
• Attach the particle emitter to a gun model's muzzle.
• Adjust the rate of fire to single or mutliple shots with predefined
  number of rounds.
• After running out of bullets, enable Emit On once again to fire off
  another volley of bullets.
• Set Burst Fire to 0 in order to fire indefinitely.
• You are allowed to replace the bullet mesh and sprite map for the
  flash, smoke, vortex, decal, and debris texture channels.
• Adjust Gravity to give the bullet trajectory a naturally arch.

• Fireworks is comprised of two effect types which includes Radial
  (Type A) and Ring (Type B) shapes.
• You can adjust the Area, Position, and Flux for each effect type.
• Reduce Flux number for single firework emission.

• Smoke will be emitted from the floor as the flame strikes the
  collision-enabled ground.
• Move the emitter around to generate the Flame Thrower effect.
• Rotate the emitter to chane the direction of the particle emission.

• Smoke and debris will be created when the particle effect strikes
  the collision-enabled ground.
• Meteors have two-way physics which allows it push away other
  dynamic objects.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.
• You can replace the meteor rock mesh.

• You can replace the sprite image for the Smoke animation sequence.

• You can replace the sprite image for the Torch Fire animation sequence.
• Adjust the Light Intensity parameter to create artificial lighting when
  global illumination is disabled.

Specific Attributes

Quick Tips

Features

• Replace the Particle texture image to change out the bokeh shape
  for the blur effect.
• You can adjust the viewing camera's Focus Distance, Focus Range
  and Bokeh Max Radiu to customize the DOF effect and arrangement.
• Focus Range :
  1st slider - Distance from the in-focus to the out-of-focus plane.
  2nd slider - Size of the fully-focused zone.

• You can change out the emitter Image to render a different picture.
• Re-enable Emit On to start another dissolve effect.
• Some attributes require re-simulation for the changes to take effect
  such as Image Scale and Flux (shortcut: Shift-S).

• Sample a static, skinned, or blendshaped mesh for the emitter shape.
  This sampled mesh will be used when this particle effect takes form.
• Note: only source meshes with single UV sets can be sampled.
• The Dissolve map is used to determine the regions of the mesh that
  can melt away.
• Apply the diffuse map for the sampled mesh to the emitter's Diffuse
  texture so that when it takes form, it will also mimic the colors of
  the mesh textures.
• Dissolve Mesh provides 7 states or phases (time measured in
  seconds):
  1. Fade In Time is the transition between fully transparent to the
      textured particles.
  2. Before Melt Time is the pause before the assembled particles
      begins to melt.
  3. Drop Speed is the speed at which the particles melt and drop to the
      floor.
  4. Melt Time is the duration at which the mesh remains melted.
  5. Reform Time is the time it takes to go from completely melted to
      completely reconstituted.
  6. After Reform Time is the pause before the reconstitued particles
      starts to fade.
  7. Fade Out Time is the time it takes to transition from textured to
      transparent particles.

• Follow the steps below to generate a Music Ball effect:
  1. Sample the AudioSpectrum and click on the Popcorn Sound
      Sampler.
  2. Drag in an audo file to the stage as background music or noise
      and click on Collect Scene Sound in the Project panel.
  3. Alternatively, you can just directly load an audio file into the Project
      panel.
• Sample a static, skinned, or blendshaped mesh to change the emitter
  shape.

• You can change out the Density Image to render a different picture.
• If a static, skinned, or blendshaped mesh is sampled for the emitter
  shape then the particles will stick to the shape of the sampled mesh
  while basing their positioning on the Density Image in relation to the
  meshe's UV coordinates.

• You can adjust the Inital Hour, Minute and Second to delay or quicken
  the start of the Timer.
• You can turn on and off Hour and Millisecond.
• Replace the texture image to change out the font style for the
  numbers.