Need help troubleshooting expression.
I'm playing around with different approaches to simulating seas and whatnot and have been perusing this tutorial. Everything is apparently setup correctly in my scene but I keep getting an error when using their expression. Here are the steps if you want to try and recreate it real quick:
1. Create a horizontal square cubic NURBS plane of width 100 units and divided into 50 spans in both u and v directions.
2. Make the plane a soft body (creation options: make soft). Rename this particle shape node (not the transform node) to seaparticle.
3. Open the attribute editor on seaparticle. Go to the section called Per Particle (Array) Attributes, RMB-press the position field, and choose Runtime Expression from the pop-up menu. Input the following expression:
Code:
vector $dummy1 = seaparticle.position0;
vector $dummy2 = <<$dummy1.x/6 + 59 - frame/20, 27 + frame/40, $dummy1.z/20 + 32>>;
seaparticle.position = <<$dummy1.x, 2.4 * noise($dummy2), $dummy1.z>>;
This should result in a stormy seas-styled billowing like KB's been working on. His method works great but I'm interested in seeing why I can't get the expression to work.
When I go to adjust Per Particle (Array) Attributes for seaparticle, all the fields are grayed out. Even still, I can RMB and open the expression editor in position but keep getting the following error when I create:
"Error: Attribute not found or variable missing '$': seaparticle.position0"
Anyone know what's happening here?
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