Attractor circles

apc · February 17, 2025, 2:06pm

Hi, I want moving 2D circles to be attracted to a stationary object when they are close to it and stay there for a certain amount of time. I have tried something with the attractor, but am not really getting anywhere. Is the attractor the right node for this or is there something else?

apc · February 17, 2025, 4:18pm

Unfortunately I cannot upload my patch.

joreg · February 17, 2025, 5:05pm

please try again now.

apc · February 17, 2025, 6:52pm

Attractors.vl (32.8 KB)

joreg · February 18, 2025, 9:03am

i’m afraid from your description and patch it is not really clear to me what you’re looking for and what problem you’re facing.

yar · February 18, 2025, 10:01pm

@apc If you are looking for particles and a particle attractor, you should explore Fuse and its abundant library of examples. This is probably what you are looking for.

What you are using now is a mathematical model and has to do with solving mathematical problems.

bjoern · February 19, 2025, 9:04am

I think Fuse might be a bit overkill.
Maybe check out VL.Animation.ParticleSystem:

OT: @joreg can the links to the “old site” in the forum please be fixed? It’s a pita to do it manually every time.