some questions about POPs

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1.if use velocity POP to ajust particles's velocity ,why they can't be affect by force any more? is there any way to solve it?

2. in source pop ,how to make particles always are attached to emit surface while the new partcles is being emited at 0 speed?

3. keep new particles being born at 0 speed on surface of source POP,then use force or wind to push them ,how to make particles slider on surface and not penetrate it? or it can be solve in Sop?

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question 1:
in order to understand what is happening here you have to first understand the fundamentals of how POPs works. On each time step acceleration gets interpreted as velocity and then on the following timestep velocity get interpreted as position:

a->v->p

in order to see this in action create a popnet with the oversampling set to 1.
create a location pop that creates 1 point on the first frame.
add a force pop with the a value of 0 10 0
open up the spread sheet and take a look at what happens:
frame 1 : acceleration, no velocity, no change in position.
frame 2 : acceleration, change in velocity, no change in position.
frame 3: acceleration, change in velocity, change in positon.

the point doesn't move until frame 3!

so now lets go back to your original question. Why is the force pop
not working with the velocity pop. this is probably because the values
in the velocity pop are overriding the velocities from the force pop.

so for example in the velocity pop if you set the value to (10,0,0)
the velocity coming out of that pop is always going to be (10,0,0).
but if you do something like ($VX+10,$VY,$VZ) then a velocity of ten
will be added on each time step and you'll be able to see the effect(note this
will be cumulative).

questions 2 and 3 - don't have to much experience doing this the first
things that come to mind are the “slide” and “stick” features of the collision
pop. You might be able to use the state sop to flag a particle as stuck or sliding as soon as it born. might want to look at the creep pop as well.

hope that helps
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thank you.
but what is the use of velocity POP?

for 2 and 3 question,i couldn't find state Sop.
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I wired a velocity pop to location POP,
and set activitonof velocity pop to “$LIFE<0.5”,but an error happened,why?
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