Day 16

I made a simple setup to test the $LIFE and $AGE  expressions. I made particles birth from a grid and added a color node to them. I used a ramp with a gradient of warm colours, red,orange,yellow and white. $LIFE seems to have a gradual change in the color white $AGE seems to be changing color really fast.


                                                             Simple Test

                                                            Colour Changed

I found an fbx of a mocapped walking animation online and decided to see if I could use it on my particles. I couldn't figure out how to do it though.
I made 3 different types of geometry with the reference model. The first one is just one model alone, second one is two models facing each other and the third one is three models facing each other. I wanted to try to randomly distribute the models onto the particles,since we're going to use different groups of actions on a particle. I tried to use a switch node and added a random expression onto it. It didn't distribute the geometry randomly, but they changed randomly during playback. Well, that's kinda obvious since I'm using a switch. I guess it has something to do with the particles IDs. I think we'll probably do a different method anyways, using the BGEOs.


                                                             Single Model

                                                          Two Models

                                                          Three Models

We're doing the motion capture tomorrow.