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Create Cd and alpha 1

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Create Cd and alpha 1

- [Instructor] Now we've got our particle system cached out, I'm just gonna play a little bit here, it's cool. We can start to see that we're getting our nice particles coming off our object separation as well as the impact points, so we can see the little sliding that's happening from the collision. So everything is working nicely here, but now it's time to actually start to stylize and color our particles because right now, we just have that sort of black-to-white ramp over their age that we're gonna use as a lookup ramp. So middle-mouse click on the dying particles I want to cache and you can see that we have this nice, clean, couple of attributes that we need, but we have these two groups, because every time we create a POP source node within the DOPs context it's gonna automatically create these different stream groups for us, which is awesome, 'cause now I scroll down here, middle-mouse click, you can see that we have these different numbers of particles from both the…

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