Attaching animated meshes to single mesh?

[Rif]

ok so i cant find the script i had just now but heres the key functions youll need to script something for doing this.. so the goal is first to get the Sources objects copied , thats the standart copy() function .. ( for the purpose let say : For foo in "arrayofmeshes.count" do copy Ffxobjectsource1)..
then let say you dump those copied FFxobjectSource into "SourceArray"


the second goal is for each of those Object sources , you want to assign them each 1 of the meshes avalaible for emiting from right ? so something like : for foo in SourceArray Do append Arrayofmeshes[foo] SourceArray[foo].object .. that will add 1 of your mesh in 1 of your object sources ..

then you just open the ffx ui and pick add and select all your sources in the list ..

i didnt instance them ( instead of copy() , instance() ) as instance sources dont allow you to pick different objects.. maybe they should ..

So , because they are copies , that means youll also want to controll their changes all together ... So Use the SourceArray to to expose all the parameters of each source and to change them .. i suggest you create yourself shortcut functions .. something like that :


Fn AdjFuel =
(
for foo in Sourcearrsources do foo.fuel = Random 0 0
)
Fn AdjTemp=
(
for foo in Sourcearrsources do foo.temperature = Random 50 100
)
Fn AdjDensSm =
(
for foo in Sourcearrsources do foo.SmokeDensity = Random 2.00 3.00
)
etc..etc..

this way you can not only put all of them the same values but also add some randomness controlled ..

cheers,