Hi ya..

Fisrts Im trying to create a random life for my particle POP.
I am birthing particle from a grid. This expression doesnt work for a random life span: rand (0,50)
All this expression does is allow for very subtle movement on the surface of the grid.

Next I have a metaball that I would like to attach to these particles. Im not exactly sure how to do this. I have in my pops net work attached a instance pop and it looks like it is working. I then brought the POPs net work in to my OBJ with a SOP and in SOP added a POP node. The particles come in fine. but the meta ball attached in the POP net work didnt come along with it. Where should I attach my meta ball to my POP net work?

Thanks
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I Figured out my own question. In the SOP Space you a POP tile to import the correct POP net work. thats how you bring in the particle info from the POP Space. Then to attach my meta balls to the particles I used a COPY SOP … the META BALL SOP in the LT side of the COPY SOP and the POP SOP in to the RT of the COPY SOP … there you have it.

The meta ball partticle driven net work. This stuff is cool