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Sarcastic-Brony β SFM Tutorial: Applying a Particle onto models
Published: 2013-04-21 00:03:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 32723; Favourites: 275; Downloads: 388
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Always wanted to know how someone applies a particle onto a model? Well, today is your lucky day!This is not for the faint of heart but know that its not impossible to learn, once you learn, it can hold untold possibilities for your SFM posters and videos!
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O.o does this work for actually showing the particle when you're actually editing your poster/videos in SFM?
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I learned something from a brony.
I may have been wrong.
A selective few bronies might be smart.
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this man new da wae before there was a wae.........
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You have problems which need a professional's help, simple as that. I were smart long before I found out I'm a brony and nothing changed when I did find out, and there are so many good bronies, so you're absolutely wrong.
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i was joking calm down
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No I won't, for there was no way to know.
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how does one attach particles to a horn on a unicorn or AlicornΒ model. And how do you recolor the particles?
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Unfortunately, there is no way to attach the magic particles to a specific part of the alicorn body, such as the horn, HOWEVER, there is a way to get around this.
Apply the magic to another object, preferably something the size of the horn. Lock that object's root transform to the head of the alicorn, and put it inside of the alicorn's horn. Now, once you have completed whatever animation you wish for the model ((Assuming it's a pony.)) to perform, unlock said object's root transform from the head of the object. The object should still perform the animation now. Apply the magic particle to the object ((I'm assuming you already know how to do this.)), and then click the visibility icon for the object. If all goes well, your invisible object will still be surrounded by the magic particles, and since that object was inside the horn as you animated it, it the magic particles should now follow the horn.
Recoloring the magic particles is simple. Simply Right click the magic particle in question, Instance the particle. Right click the particle afterward, and a new option should appear, saying 'Edit Particle System Definition.' Click that, and look at the lower left hand corner, inside of a scroll wheeled box, there should be an option called 'color random'. Click it, and you'll see two option called 'Color 1' and 'Color 2'. Color 1 controls fringe magic, and the color 2 controls the inside magic.Β
Have a nice day!
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I'm having some problems. I'm trying to past some small particles onto the mlp bit, but it won't go. Is it because it's too small?
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Things dont work
I cant move it after its placed.
What did I do wrong?
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Alright, I put a magic effect on a bottle (LittlePip's horn), try every way of locking the bones but the particles or dissapear, glitch out or pip's neck and head move independetly, need help now.
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Thanks. It's real hard to find tutorials like this since most people expect you know how to do it or you stick to the basics.
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Please help, it doesn't work! The particles don't cover the whole body!
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Thank you
One question: How to get it on the horn?
Thanks
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Sorry didn't see the comment below.
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For some reason, this isn't working for me, since the update; I don't get the model name, just the bone names, and that doesn't work when I copy/paste it like in the article.
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Cool tutorial, but the only particle I was able to get to work was the disguise one that is in the tutorial. I wasn't able to get any of the burning particles to work.
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dont know if this has been asked/answered before, but how do you only get the horn glow? been trying to figure it out but no luck
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Spawn a prop. Bottle of some kind works best. Move that bottle onto the horn, making sure the horn is inside of the bottle. Apply magic particle to bottle. Lock bottle's bone to head bone of pony model. Untick render for the bottle *little eye thing*. Boom, magic particle that moves with the horn of your model.
Currently, no other way to apply magic to the horn besides this method.
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I noticed that some bottles don't work as well. That or some particles aren't as good for locking.
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How might I lock the bottle to the horn of the pony?
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thats really handy! thanx for the tip c:
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How can you change the color of the particle effect? it's an white sparkly color?
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When I Was Making A Trailer, I Broke SFMΒ Β
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under childrens i dont have pinkiepie_gamemodel
i have:
bone 0 (Pelvis)
View Target
i think thats why it doesnt work...? can you help
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You forgot to go up one time on the tree, look at the image that comes after the one that tells you to select "show in element viewer, model". You will notice a small white arrow that points at a button that will take you one level up on the model tree, so you can access the correct area.
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do you maybe have a tutorial where i can look how to changethe colour of the particle?
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ah! now it works! thanks!
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Horns don't have bones, so all you can really do is spawn a particle system and move it over the horn, then lock that particle to the head bone.. That's how most animators do it.
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If I remember correctly, Argo uses a wooden log as the source and locks it on the horn before making the log invisible. Is that one way of doing it?
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But the particle system are locked, even though I do not have a lock and do not know how it unlock to be able to this move.
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how do i put particle like aura or idk on horns?
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I Wonder where You Got The Paper Masks Because I Want One o3o
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Great! Thank you.
I think I'm getting the hang of particles...
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HOLY CRAP THANK YOU FOR THAT LINK
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I can't seem to get the Bonk! dodge effect (scout_dodge_blue to be exact) to actually to go my models.Β
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Sadly this does seem to work with the mlp magic particle. but, as said, not all will work. Thanks for this though.
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Question: Does this only work for some particles? (I'm trying to do it with the Hard-Ware Morphed Scout, with the tf/particles/burning_player.pcf/burning_torch particle.)
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As it says in the image. Some particles work better than others, even some dont work at all. Though some particles are games based so check to see if the particle rules are turned on. Right click viewport, draw game entities and make sure particles is checked. If even that doesnt work then chances are its just a buggy particle, sfm is acting up or in rare cases, a buggy model.
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It's probably a "buggy particle", I suppose.
I should try with a Particle directly meant for "model-merging".
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One question: Can i apply an particle effect to a especific bone? (not the entire model)
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