Meanwhile, Joe is working on...

Just quick adjustments the the force fields (turning down turbulence and keying various field's magnitudes) and changes to the custom aim expression/script. Still not convinced on the general behaviour of the butterflies, I think I will write my own flocking system to deal with them. At the current state, they are most useful for long shots and when the butterflies may need to collide with objects due to the use of nParticles. I think creating a custom flocking system will be to mainly provide a more realistic flight behaviour, with less sharp changes of direction which is an artifact of the current solution and also to allow for butterflies to follow and go to certain positions defined by the user. At the current moment I am unsure of how to do such things with nParticles and expressions.

Been pumping up on my little exporting script and UI, think it is ready to be labelled version 1. It exports the meshes as OBJ or FBX, but pimped a bit more. Currently living in my custom shelf alongside the hot key assignment script for my custom ROCCAT Power Grid layout for Maya. Also occasionally using Charcoal Editor for writing scripts, more bulletproof colour labelling for codes and results, generally cool but it's a demo version so I don't have access to all the goodies. Now a little about the script: Red background, so it doesn't disappear into the dullness that is the normal Maya colour scheme Written for windows in mind, the file management and stuff. Could write more foe linux and mac but... got other work to do Also currently pretty picky with folder names and setup i.e. predefined FBX and OBJ folder names as suited to the ones on our current Dropbox folder Will refuse to do things if it is not in an environment it likes e.g. won't display folders...