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Here’s a little work I did when playing around with <\/span>per-particle field attributes<\/a> in Maya.  Before starting my transition into Houdini I was playing with the concept of creating intelligent creatures with a mass of particles.  You might be surprised how many cool things you can find about Maya particles, a lot of them are hidden or undocumented.  Here from about 40 lines of code we’ve got a colorful worm who seeks the red ball.  The worm is cowardly, and will go into defensive mode if the ball scares it by moving too quickly.<\/span><\/div>\n
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