pulling particles through a tube?

[timaging]

so, I need to create a moving cluster of particles, then have a portion of that particle get sucked through a tube.

so, I've created an omni emitter with newton and turbulence. This part looks good.

But "sucking" some of the particles away from that cluster in a tube is somewhat of a giant problem. I thought for sure the uniform field would do it, but I've tried every field with no real luck

Any ideas on what I can do to make this happen?

Thanks,
Dave

[crutch]

Have you tried using goals?

[timaging]

yeah, working on a goal situation, but no luck yet.

currently, I'm just going to combine my emitter with another curve flow, but it would look far more realistic if I could pull on the particles.

[jbunger72]

I am still pretty new but i think you might be able to set up a gravity effect for directional not for sure though just thought i would throw that one out to you.

[timaging]

yeah, you could try Gravity or Uniform, but neither is giving me the effect that I'm trying to emulate.

For now, I'll just combine the 2 and my hunch is that through using a curve as a goal and some clever Mel scripting, I could do it the way I envision.

Dave

[naryab]

Have you ever considered running the animation backwards? I know this sounds weird, but sometimes it is easy to the opposite of what you want, and you could get away with just playing the animation backwards when compositing... just a side thought.

[timaging]

sounds interesting, but I need to be worried about camera movements and such...

I do have a way to do it, but thank you for the idea!

Dave