You pesky bubbles

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Otuama
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You pesky bubbles

Post by Otuama » Sat Jun 08, 2013 10:21 pm

I've got a bubble method I'm working on but I've noticed something strange happening with some of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdPT6qkw-zA&hd=1

As you can see, the majority of the bubbles are fine but some stop in mid air. They stay there and only start moving again when another bubble consumes it.

I know the cause of the problem but not why it's happening..... Does that even make sense?

I have a low gravity for the bubbles but a kSpeed limiting their velocity.

It's the kSpeed that seems to be the cause because when I turn it off it doesn't seem to happen.

Here are tooltips for 3 ok bubbles (highlighted with particle selection tool):

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And now 3 static bubbles:

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The majority of particles within each static bubble have a minus Y velocity. Most also have high minus accelerations.

Can anyone think why would be happening?
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