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Particle Initial State in MEL
Trying to work with particles in MEL and I'm not sure the correct way to get my particles to the state I want to save as initial.
Here's what I want to do,
1) Create emitter/particles
2) Play for 50 frames
3) Save Particle Initial State
4) Delete Emitter
I'm golden for steps 1 and 3, and I figure step 4 shouldn't be too bad - I'm just not sure how to play my animation for 50 frames before setting the initial state. If I use currentTime 50, that gets me to frame 50 of course, but my particles have not moved as I never actually played through those frames.
Is there a flag/command I can use when creating the particles, something like setInitialAge(50 frames)?
I can see how it would be possible to overcome this by using playbackOptions to set the time slider from 0-50, but for usability I'd prefer my script not need to mess with the user's time slider. Unless there's a way to save and then revert back to the user's previous time slider settings?
There must be an easier way to do this.
Any help?
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