From the course: Cinema 4D Essential Training: 9 Particles and Dynamics
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Breaking down the TP standard emitter - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D Essential Training: 9 Particles and Dynamics
Breaking down the TP standard emitter
Because Thinking Particles is based on the XPresso scripting language, it's fairly complex to set up. As you saw from the first movie, the creation of a basic Emitter was a fairly long ordeal. Fortunately, there are some great presets that ship with the Studio version of CINEMA 4D that will help you jumpstart the process. I'm going to go into the Content Browser and under the Presets--this inkwell is a preset-- before I click on anything, I'll go to the View and change it to As list. And I'll click on Presets, and then I'll scroll down to Studio. And in the Studio I'll click onto Simulation and then Thinking Particles, and under Presets, under Emitters. Now that's a lot of folders deep, but there's a bunch of great emitters in here, and the one that we're going to take a look at is the TP Standard Emitter. So I'll double click on that; that adds to the currently open scene. Let's go back to the Object Manager, and you could see that I now have this TP Standard Emitter Null Object in…
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