Its been at least two years since I worked on this project, but I may have time to continue working on it now. This is a test of the particle system I am developing for Poser. This is just a preview render. This is what it looks like at design time, although its not this fast in actual design time, of course.

In this example, there are 800 particles in the scene at any given point. Over the course of the animation, 4000 particles are generated. The calculation time for each frame is very fast, so this is a cakewalk for the system. If you have any interest in this, please let me know.

Poser Particle System: Emitter Dual Test

Looks great.

Fantastic!

Looks Grrrreat!

Looking good.

Seems Great. Will you be able to make animated smoke,water,bubbles etc with your system? Cheers

Thanks for the encouragement, everybody!

arrow1, theoretically, it should work for anything you would normally use a particle system for. Water is best accomplished with fluid simulations, which are different, but you can fake certain things with particles like fountains and waterfalls. I've heard that fluid simulations work better for smoke too, but I think it is very common to use particle systems for smoke. You can apply any material to the particle that you choose to make it look as you wish. In the future, I may choose to allow different geometries for particles too, but for now its just a camera facing triangle that you can apply material to. Note that this includes transparency, so it does not need to look like a triangle, of course.

Here is an old example that I made a couple of years back using my system to produce a rocket engine effect: Rocket Demo for Particle System for Poser

I took that same demo and applied a material to the particles. The material has a star shaped transparency mask, and the ambient color is cranked up to 20. Since the particles are set to be light emitters and I rendered with indirect light, you can see them illuminate the ground as they fall. I also removed all of the lights from the scene, so that we could enjoy the glow effect.

This took hours to render in HD, but not overnight. I did not check, but it may have been two hours.

https://youtu.be/wvzsRyk7VqU

That looks good! Sparks, embers, lot's of different uses.

Would the log have told you how long it took?

Oh, wow! I did not realize that there was a log. I see it now, but I don't see my long render. I wonder if it logs each frame separately.

I didn't see any of these particles visibly "decaying." (Deleting themselves, limited lifetime, etc.) I assume they would, but I just couldn't spot any doing that. That might present resource problems if they don't and would limit the range of effects available.

(ie: They always appear to go out of frame and don't appear to decay, just from what I noticed.)

Morkonan, they do have a lifetime. I just wanted them to live long enough to go out of frame.

Thanks for the input!

WANT!!!