You are right, it is possible. Look at this video I made:
youtube.com/watch?v=UFuXfGnSd58[/youtube]]http://www.I used scripts for this, but it wasn's so easy... The advantage of terranim8or is that it pastes hundreds of particles into the scene, it generates all random positions etc. I had to do all that by hand and it was a pain in the ass...
When I wanted to create this little animation, I tried terranim8or, but the results were not good enough. So...
- I wrote a simple controller script for one particle; I used "GetAttribute..." function for many parameters of the movement so I could change the movement of all the particles later.
- with MS Excel (generating random seeds), MS Word (using mail merge function) and notepad (editing the .an8 file directly) I duplicated that particle 500 times while each of them moved little difffierently.
- I fixed hundred milion details... and it was done!
When I made that animation, I was thinking of writing a short tutorial about particle animations with scripts... but the way I made it is so complicated, that nobody would understand that tutorial... And those who would understand it are good enough to find their own way
Anyway, I believe all this will be much easier once ASL scripting is fully enabled for scene editor...
