{"id":889,"date":"2018-11-10T15:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/?p=889"},"modified":"2018-11-10T15:01:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:01:44","slug":"houdini-hda-particle-looker-1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/10\/houdini-hda-particle-looker-1-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Houdini HDA: Particle Looker 1.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-10-at-14.49.22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-891\" src=\"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-10-at-14.49.22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"895\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should be called &#8220;Point Looker&#8221; really. Super simple really, just a time-saver if you keep need certain looks, which I found I did. Plug some points in the top and this will create Alpha \/ Cd \/ pscale attributes. Set colour from a ramp, or from a base colour and then hue\/sat\/val variance; Alpha over age or from a custom attribute; Size based on mass, or a ramp based distribution.<\/p>\n<p>And a &#8220;Create specials&#8221; option, which takes some proportion of your particles (best not too many) and gives you some extra controls. Handy for making a few\u00a0odd differently coloured or extra bright particles to spice up the mix, like in the top image.<\/p>\n<p>Colours can be cycled through the ramps too, to add a bit of life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MlkVbhS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-890\" src=\"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MlkVbhS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No guarantees, may not function as advertised, may burn down your house. But it&#8217;s reasonably well documented if you dive inside, and most of the parameters have hover-text help. If you&#8217;re happy with that, download:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/com.howiem__h_particle_look__1.8.hdalc_.zip\">com.howiem__h_particle_look__1.8.hdalc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should be called &#8220;Point Looker&#8221; really. Super simple really, just a time-saver if you keep need certain looks, which I found I did. Plug some points in the top and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-houdini-tips"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}