Animating particle lifetime effects all spawned particles in Cycles render #69507

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Casey · 2019-09-04T22:18:52+02:00

Casey commented

2019-09-04 22:18:52 +02:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.18362 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 431.70

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.81 (sub 3), branch: master, commit date: 2019-08-26 09:27, hash: 2778754925

Short description of error
I animate particle lifetime to control the flow of particles from an emitter (setting it to 1 to cut off the flow). Unfortunately even after baking particle dynamics rendering in Cycles will cause the whole system to cut off/die when the lifetime of the particles is animated to a value of 1. This doesn't happen in viewport or anywhere else; only during Cycles render.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Make particle system that has initial velocity from face(s), using an object for render.
Use keyframes to animate the particle lifetime with "constant" interpolation. Set the lifetime to 1 when you want to cut off the "flow" of particles.
In viewport this will look as expected and the existing particles will continue to exist while new particles have a lifetime of 1.
Bake dynamics.
Use Cycles render to render the animation: at the point that the animated value for lifetime is reached ALL particles emitted, old and new, are destroyed.

**System Information** Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.18362 64 Bits Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 431.70 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 2.81 (sub 3), branch: master, commit date: 2019-08-26 09:27, hash: `2778754925` **Short description of error** I animate particle lifetime to control the flow of particles from an emitter (setting it to 1 to cut off the flow). Unfortunately even after baking particle dynamics rendering in Cycles will cause the whole system to cut off/die when the lifetime of the particles is animated to a value of 1. This doesn't happen in viewport or anywhere else; only during Cycles render. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Make particle system that has initial velocity from face(s), using an object for render. Use keyframes to animate the particle lifetime with "constant" interpolation. Set the lifetime to 1 when you want to cut off the "flow" of particles. In viewport this will look as expected and the existing particles will continue to exist while new particles have a lifetime of 1. Bake dynamics. Use Cycles render to render the animation: at the point that the animated value for lifetime is reached ALL particles emitted, old and new, are destroyed.

Casey commented

2019-09-04 22:18:52 +02:00

Added subscriber: @Casey-3

Casey changed title from ~~Animating particle lifetime effects all particles in Cycles render, even existing ones~~ to Animating particle lifetime effects all spawned particles in Cycles render

2019-09-04 22:19:23 +02:00

Richard Antalik commented

2020-01-10 18:10:16 +01:00

Added subscriber: @iss

Richard Antalik commented

2020-01-10 18:10:16 +01:00

Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Confirmed'

Richard Antalik commented

2020-01-10 18:10:16 +01:00

Can confirm, that at the point that the animated value for lifetime is reached ALL particles emitted, old and new, are destroyed.

Regardless of render engine.

Can confirm, that at the point that the animated value for lifetime is reached ALL particles emitted, old and new, are destroyed. Regardless of render engine.

Bastien Montagne commented

2020-01-15 17:40:58 +01:00

Added subscriber: @mont29

Bastien Montagne commented

2020-01-15 17:40:58 +01:00

Not sure whether that kind of animation is actually supposed to work… In any case, current particle system does not really have any maintainer, so considering this a s a known issue for now.

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Animating particle lifetime effects all spawned particles in Cycles render #69507