3d stroke or Particular --Ribbon effect

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3d stroke or Particular --Ribbon effect
by JR on Oct 11, 2004 at 12:26:33 am

Excuse me if this is a stupid question. Can you make a single line/ribbon or whatever u want to call it using Particular. I know you can do this using 3d stroke but not the other. If you can make this why use Particular and not 3d stroke ? Thanks for any feedback.

JR

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Re: 3d stroke or Particular --Ribbon effect
by Jonathan Cohn on Oct 12, 2004 at 4:38:09 am

im actually interested in doing this as well. Ive been experimenting with a ribbon effect with particular, but my line is coming out uneven. I created a box emitter with size of 1x1x50. Then i use small sphere particles emitting with 0 velocity. In theory, this idea works, but it seems like you have to crank up the particles to well over a thousand to get something to look like a ribbon, and even then, it looks chunky. Any help?

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Re: 3d stroke or Particular --Ribbon effect
by john calvert on Oct 15, 2004 at 4:39:14 am

to get a true ribbion look you will have to go 3d standalone route

i have faked it in the past with 3d stroke use the size of the stroke to like 2
set the pepeter for 10
z ofset to about 4
turn off systmmtic

might have to mokey with them to get the results your after

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Re: 3d stroke or Particular --Ribbon effect
by Jonathan Cohn on Oct 15, 2004 at 10:52:17 am

any suggestions on a good 3d standalone: 3ds? c4d?

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Re: 3d stroke or Particular --Ribbon effect
by john calvert on Oct 15, 2004 at 2:53:00 pm

im more of a 2d guy
but they should both work

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