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particles and trail sop question

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Nick Deboar
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Hey,

I'm trying to get some trails off my particles. The trail sop is good, but I need more sub steps. I tried using time shift, but it makes the simulation stop early, not sure why?

I've attached my hip,

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Nick

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Platon
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Hi

is this what you were looking for?

not sure about the trail sop yet, will give it a closer look tomorrow

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goldleaf
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On the Trail SOP, you'll want to have a smaller Trail Increment (think Step Size), and then increase your Trail Length (number of Steps), to get what you're looking for, I think.

And you can connect those with the Add SOP and the id attribute that comes from the particle solve.

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Platon
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Yeah but his scene should've worked too, he reduces step size with time warping/remaping.
And it almost works, just 2 things to mention:

1) In /obj/source_particles/trail1 set “Evaluate Within Frame Range” to off
(or set your time range in playback 1 - 2500)

2) In /obj/AutoDopNetwork set “Sub Steps” to 10 as this is the multiplier divider you're using in “timeshift” nodes

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Nick Deboar
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Thanks guys!
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