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Displaying the particle bounding volume

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Question By default, a particle cloud object does not display a bounding volume environment when viewed in any of the standard OGL display modes. Is there a way of displaying the particle cloud's bounding volume environment?

Answer

Yes there is! Just follow these steps:

1. Select the particle cloud object.
2. In the Render tree, connect a Phong shader to the input of the particle cloud's Material-Surface input.
3. Draw a render region in the camera view to see the results. You will notice a cube appears representing the particle cloud's bounding volume environment.

Tip: You can transform the particle cloud object as you would any other object in XSI.

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References

General information about particles:

SOFTIMAGE|XSI Animating guide v1.5, page 469.

Rendering particles:

SOFTIMAGE|XSI Animating guide v1.5, page 511.

Applies To: XSI 1.5 on NT,Win2K,Irix

Posted: 4/9/2001