I'm not quite sure just what you mean by " No matter where I place it and turn it on". Adding anything to a scene, no matter where the timeline marker is when it is added, will always be active/visible from frame 1. If you want it to be anything else then this must be set as a state at frame 1 and changed at the frame where it should be active/visible.


Gerry

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@Space Rider - Try this...

Expanding on what Wires said:
Add the particle item.
At T=0, turn it OFF (it is probably On by default - this should make an "off" keyframe at the start of your video)
At T=1:15 or whenever you want it on, then turn it on

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Hello, Kelleytoons I hope this helps you and the community I have created a particle for the issues you were having called PartyTimeKL1.
It has collision  with physics objects and lots of attributes for customization.
I will also be releasing some of the particles that come with popcornfx with the correct axis and with attributes for those also.
I will be starting a new post called particle share.
Best Regards.
Kevin L.
You can download from youtube link





Warped Reality VFX.

Kevin,

It's very generous of you and, yes, this would have worked for me (a bit late for my project, but useful nevertheless).  I was trying to just get the balloons to "drop" but if you move the emitter up high enough they will do this properly, although I would suggest if you make similar FX you also include options to allow the emission to be tailored.

Given the options and the results it's clear you know what you are doing, and I suspect there will be a market for other such work from you.  I know I'll be looking at what you might provide, and certainly would be willing to pay a reasonable price for it.  Keep us posted.

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Emissions can be tailored. play with all attributes its quite a versitile effect.

These are just a few of the attributes,enjoy.



Warped Reality VFX.

Oh, I know and I don't want to minimize how good it is.  But for my own purposes (dropping the balloons down from the ceiling) what I really needed was just the standard "emit from here" settings on most of the PopcornFX (where you specify the x/y/z coordinates of the emission).  

As I said, it's great but I would hope you'd consider that basic for future ones.

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Thank you once again Kelleytoons for feedback I have not studied how iClones 7 implements positioning their emitter other than physically moving the emitter I will implement this feature now.
I will add a mesh sampler also to emit position XYZ.


Warped Reality VFX.

Hello, Kelleytoons I have updated the effect to version 2.0 and added more features including the ones you suggested.
Also for any others that have downloaded the effect make sure you upgrade to version 2.0. There also a quick tutorial about some of the new features.


Warped Reality VFX.

Thanks for doing this.  In the PopcornFX tutorial yesterday some folks were asking about more FX, so you might want to start your own separate thread even if it's just to mention this particular FX.

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