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Using the ParticleCache node

Using the ParticleCache node - Nuke Tutorial

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Using the ParticleCache node

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- [Instructor] The all new ParticleCache node is a real productivity booster when working with particles. This node will cache your entire particle animation to disk, where it can be recalled and used later without recalculating the particle animation. You add the ParticleCache node to the end of your particle system. So I'll select the last node in the stack, come up to the Particles tab, and select the ParticleCache node. So here's my little particle animation that we'll use as an example, very simple, very nice. Okay, I'll stop that. Now we're ready to render to disk. The first thing to do, of course, is to set the file path. So we'll open up the little browser folder, select our destination. We'll create a render folder. We'll call it particles. Click OK. And now we have to name our particles. I'm going to name them cache., and I'm going to pad out to four places, no extension needed. Nuke is automatically going to put an extension, nkpc, after each frame. So we'll open that, and…

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