Adobe Director Basics

ADOBE DIRECTOR BASICS
3D: Controlling appearance
Saving a particle system
There are two ways you can save the Particle system that you have created:
If you use the member3D.saveWorld() command, then save your movie, Director saves the current state of your
world, including the state of any Particle system that you have created. See Saving the 3D world for more details.
Saving the entire world may not be practical, especially if you want to compare slight variations in the Particle
system that you are working on. The alternative is to save the current state of a Particle system as a property list,
and then use that property list to regenerate the Particle system at a later time. The Particles.dir movie uses the
second system to generate the different demonstration Particle systems. It includes a script named Particle Script,
which has two main handlers:
Particle_GetScriptText(a3DMember, aParticleName)
Particle_SetProperties(a3DMember, aParticleName, aPropList). You can use the first to generate a string that
you can paste into a Script member. This will create a new script. Calling the Particle_GetPropertyList() handler
of this new script returns a property list that you can use with the Particle_SetProperties() handler of the Particle
Script.
Using the Particle Script
To test this for yourself, you can follow the steps below.
Creating a new script that will regenerate a Particle modelResource
1 Make some changes to the properties of the Particle Test modelResource.
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