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- The Particle-System
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- Dust creates Particle-objects using two objects:
- -a structure-object (particle-positions, -sizes)
- -a shape-object (particle-shape).
- The object-attributes are taken from the shape object, too.
- There are two modes to force the particles:
- -point-mode: every point of the structur-object gets a particle,
- the size is calculated comparing the volumina
- -face-mode : every face of the structure-object gets a particle
- (centered), the particle-size is calculated using
- the face-size
- If the parameter ALIGNP set to TRUE Dust will try to align the
- x-axis of the particles along the face-normals.
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- A very nice feature is to create sphere-objects using only one
- object (structure).
- This sphere-objects are treated as normal particle-objects (saving,
- loading, exploding, etc.) but must be saved as TDDD-Group
- using the SAVESPHERES-command (You can't join real spheres).
- That means you can't load this objects into Dust again - so don't
- forget to save the objects as particle
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