Newbie needs help on making a smoke sim move toward camera

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HI, GUYS I'M VERY NEW TO HOUDINI. I WAS FOLLOWING A TUTORIAL ON HOW TO CREATE A DUST STORM, BUT I GOT STUCK ON HOW TO MAKE THE SMOKE/DUST SIM MOVE TOWARD THE CAMERA ON THE X AXIS. THE TUTOR IN THE VIDEO USED A SOURCE APPLY NODE IN HIS AUTODOP HE RENAMED ‘DUST SIMULATION’. IN HIS SOURCE APPLY NODE HE RIGHT CLICKED ON THE X AXIS BOX THEN WENT INTO MOTION EFFECTS/NOISE, HE CHANGED THE NOISE TO ALLIGATOR AND CHANGED SOME OTHER SETTINGS IN THAT BOX TO GET THE SIM TO MOVE ON THE X AXIS. UNFORTUNATELY THIS TUTORIAL IS FROM 2011, HOUDINI 13 DOES NOT HAVE THE SOURCE APPLY NODE ANYMORE, SO NOW I'M STUCK ON HOW I CAN MAKE THE SIM MOVE TOWARD THE CAMERA OR ON THE X AXIS. CAN ANYONE HELP A NEWBIE? YOUR HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANKS

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Thank you for that Chris. Ok so now that we have that covered, can you offer me some help on this topic?
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That's so funny
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Thank you for that Chris. Ok so now that we have that covered, can you offer me some help on this topic?


Ok , That's so simple , Just append a “Uniform Force DOP” after “merge1” in the DustSimulation Network.

Then set Force in X axis to some number like -100 :wink:
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Thank you JOKER..i'll try that..lol i'm really new to houdini so i appreciate the comments and the reply..EVEN YOURS CHRIS ..and yes it was funny

Edit: It Worked Thank you again joker
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That's so good news :wink:
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