Blender Particles

**guyke** · 17 October 2011, 02:33 PM

I had a lot of problems, and enough fun, to model this hedgehog

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**ODdOnLifeItself** · 17 October 2011, 03:46 PM

Hello Guy,

That looks pretty good. He definitely has character!

I haven't tried making any people/animals, yet; other than the occasional robot or simulated person made basically out of spheres...

Have fun!

James

**guyke** · 17 October 2011, 03:53 PM

Thanks James.

The modeling wasn't all that difficult - a circle, vertices extended both ways and scaled. 2 speres for the eyes and one for the nose. Getting the particle systems more or less right was the hard part.

**ODdOnLifeItself** · 17 October 2011, 03:58 PM

Hello Guy,

Yes, the particle system and some of the physics simulations like smoke, etc. are quite involved with a lot of settings and some very important, specific ways of setting them up.

I have used the particle system for several things... placing many object in a scene automatically (pebbles on a beach, stones in a field, and flung darts in a bathroom scene -- don't ask!)

The bottle with the pieces falling out (Frances' 3D challenge) was also done with a particle system as I didn't want to animate the individual pieces.

Take care

James

**angelize** · 17 October 2011, 08:30 PM

What a cute little hedgehog. I used the particle system for that grassy scene I did and it was a lot to learn, fun though. There is so much to learn with Blender!