Candy Dispenser pre-filled with solid particles when playing?

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Hello Obi'ers!  

I'm making a serious of dispensers with "candy" that needs to be filled with particles when the project starts.
And then when interacting, a "door" will open and some of it will fall down a tube onto a cake.
How do I pre-spawn the dispensers with particles, so it's already full from the when the game starts?

Thanks for this wonderful plugin 

Cheers, Dan

PS. Will Obi Cloth or Softbody be a solution if I want to have some "pancakes" thrown in the air and spin and will "bend"?

[josemendez]

Hello Obi'ers!  

I'm making a serious of dispensers with "candy" that needs to be filled with particles when the project starts.
And then when interacting, a "door" will open and some of it will fall down a tube onto a cake.
How do I pre-spawn the dispensers with particles, so it's already full from the when the game starts?

Thanks for this wonderful plugin 

Cheers, Dan

PS. Will Obi Cloth or Softbody be a solution if I want to have some "pancakes" thrown in the air and spin and will "bend"?

Hi there,

You can either:

- Use a combination of emitter shapes to approximate the shape of your dispenser (note that you can attach a single emitter to multiple shapes, and it will emit from them all)

- Create your own emitter shape by deriving from ObiEmitterShape (http://obi.virtualmethodstudio.com/api.html) and overriding its GenerateDistribution() method.

Then set your emitter mode to Burst so that all particles are created at once when you start the game, and you're set.

PD: for flying pancakes, ObiSoftbody will do fine. Just keep in mind that softbodies cannot be dynamically torn/broken.