[Bf-python] api requests

Yann Vernier yann at donkey.dyndns.org
Sun Jan 1 13:46:59 CET 2006


On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 10:33:42PM -0800, Martin Poirier wrote:
> Particles are "reused" internally.
> IE: if you have a 100 particles system, if the first
> particle die, it is reborn has a new particle, so
> hashing the memory address wouldn't work (assuming
> we're talking about unique IDs throughout the
> animation. If what we need is unique IDs on any given
> time, we can just use the particle's index).

Its lifetime status was also requested. If the script receives the index
and time of particle life for each particle, it can consider a particle
new whenever the time skips backwards. Not too elegant, but usable?



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