by Didik Wijaya
This tutorial needs you to understand basic use of 3dsmax. If you are unfamiliar with Particle Flow, try Getting Started with Particle Flow tutorial first.

After we have prepared particle ready to be animated in Part 1 tutorial. Now, we are going to the fun part, animate particles. We have to make particle move to the logo. Then, placing each particle to form the logo. That's easy to create using Particle Flow. Let's do it!

1. Continue from your previous tutorial. Add operator Age Test into Event 01. Place this operator in the most bottom row. We use default parameters here. Don't change anything. It says after frame 30±5 particle will be send to the next scene.

2. Click and drag Find Target operator from the bottom list into Particle View window. Place it outside any event. You will create a new event called Event 02. Connect Age Test 01 from Event 01 to Event 02. After that, select operator Find Target 01 in Event 02. Change Speed=200 and variation=100. In Target, activate Mesh Objects. Click By List button and select 'logo' object as target. Particle will be moved toward 'logo'. Finally, select Display 02 operator in Event 02 and delete it. We don't need that operator because we have already set Display at global parameter.

3. Scrub slider and watch particles move closely to 'logo' object. But, they don't stop after reach 'logo'. We need to stop them.

4. Drag Speed operator from bottom list into Particle View window. Place it in order to make new Event, called Event 03. Connect Find Target in Event 02 to Event 03. Delete Display operator in Event 03. Next, select Speed operator in Event 03. Set Speed=0 to make particles stop after reach 'logo'.

5. Play your animation. Your particles are now forming a logo. But, we need to add more frames based on this animation. Click Time Configuration button (at the most bottom right of the screen). Click Re-scale Time button and set End Time=150. Click OK. You'll have more frames in your scene. Next, in Part 3 tutorial, you will adjust more parameters to create more cool animation.

Particle Forming Into Logo Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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