I am using the attractor POP to make particles form a hammer. This method is working fine until I have the hammer move, then the particles will no longer stay in the form of a hammer.

Here is a link to my animation:

http://studentpages.scad.edu/~lcampb22/particle_hammer.mov [studentpages.scad.edu]

At the very end, the particles are supposed to explode. It is when the hammer starts to tip over that the particles start to lose the form of the hammer. I want the form of the hammer to stay in tact.

What has been tried to fix the problem is upping the attractor strength, but that caused the particles to go crazy.

Any ideas?

-vrljc