new update. i’ve played around a lot with ribbons. my goal was to have lead particles follow my vector field (to follow the shield) and drag crossed ribbons behind. But it didn’t look good and I couldn’t get rid of the common polygon overlays in thight corners:
So I went back to the particle approach, slapped an older flipbook on it and got this. could be nice later with a proper flipbook and some tweaking:
while trying around i got a funny artsy accident:
p.s. the ribbon research wasn’t for nothing. i created 3 tutorials while learning how to use them: