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POP Drag: Random

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POP Drag: Random

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- [Instructor] In a similar way to the fact that we use these two different pop wind nodes, one to sorta add some noise and one to add some more controlled direction. We're gonna use two different pop drag nodes. One is to add some random overall drag and another one to add different drag over time. Okay and so this again allows me to like shape the movement in little incremental ways. And then I can bypass one of those or I can, it's more easy to sorta debug what's going on, rather than have a lot of different things happening within one node. Okay so I'm gonna right click here and do pop, drag. And with the pop drag what we wanna do is again, I've used this expression many many times in this course. We're gonna do an air resist, multiply, equals, fit oh one, parentheses, rand, parentheses at ID plus just a random number, I'll do 45 point 45. Close that parentheses, comma zero, comma point five. Okay and then close that out, semicolon. So what this is doing it's creating a random…

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