Insydium’s Mike Batchelor has a look at a new rewind modifier in X-Particles 3, which will allow you to return back particles to their initial origin position. This would make it easy to fly particles out from a formed a shape, and have those particles fly around and come back to reform the object.
Quick introduction on the new xpRewind modifier.
X-PArticles 3 development has been underway for a while, and Insydium has announced an open beta program for X-Particles 3. They are inviting users of X-Particles 2.5 to join the open beta program.
Benefits
- access to the latest builds of X-Particles v3 with the new features in the stages to be announced in November
- direct feedback to the developers via a new forum
- influence the features which appear in v3
- bug reporting system
If you’re interested, please see the v3 Open Beta page for details on how to sign up.