Hello!

It would be really good for something I am working on if I could combine some separate particle ops I have setup with different sizes and shapes using metaball Copy sops so that if I combine each Copy Sop network, they will inturn blend globally together. I can kind of achieve it with a lot of fiddling around by using convert and skin SOPs but it isn't very effecient. I was wondering if anyone has ever found a more procedural method of doing this kind of thing so that you could get separate metaball particle networks to combine with each other.

Cheers!

Frank

Hi,

In my very simple test, I used a Merge SOP to combine the Copy SOPs and it seems to work. Is there something I'm missing?

It would help if you can post a simplified hip file.

Cheers!
steven

Alternatively you can use MetaGroup SOP (8.1) to group metaballs so that one group will not affect another. : )