Mesh emitter

I want to use a particle simulation to emit a custom mesh instead of the default card that it emits.

The reason I want to use the particle sim is because it has all the nifty controls to add randomness into the motion of the objects and I think telling it to use a custom mesh would be easier than scripting everything from scratch.

Alternatively I could code something to instantiate the custom mesh instead but I'm a noob at coding (I got a button with an Icon to work, yay!) and would very much appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

Thanks!

 

The particle system only does billboards.

--Eric

 

Dammit all... sigh

Thanks again.

 

Wait, shouldn't you be able to instantiate a mesh and have it fallow the position of the particles?

 

If you don't mind the overhead of running a particle system + your instantiated meshes, sure, there's no reason you couldn't do that.

Tracking the particles and instantiating meshes to match them (and destroying them in time with the particles too) could be tricky, but you could make it work. You can probably make it easier on yourself by controlling particle emission explicitly using the Emit method (rather than letting it emit on its own).