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Create a particle source object

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Create a particle source object

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- [Instructor] Similarly to what we did in our sprite chapter, what we're gonna do is we're gonna create a new geometry object where we'll fetch out just the points we want to emit the particles from to create a clean OBJ level geometry object to use as our particle source emission. So I'm gonna create a geometry object, and we're gonna call this Particle Source. I'm gonna make that light yellow. We're gonna go inside there, delete out the default file object, lay down an object merge, hit P, go to object one, go to our scene, go to this out for particles node, accept that, hit P to get rid of the parameters, let's lay down a null, and we will call that _out, as I always do, and there we go. Okay, so now we have our actual scene geometry, and if we turn off that, now we have a clean object where we're just fetching in those points to use as the source for our particles, and next up we'll actually build our particle simulation from these points.

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