Is there an easy way to split a node's output into 20/80 percent?

[HenrikBC]

I'm working on a tree animation and I wish to have 20 percent of the leaves being much affected by the wind and the other 80 percent affected very little.

Right now I'm achieving this by copying the distributor (and some other nodes following it) in order to end up with two seperate path nodes for the leaves, which I can then plug into their own separate Wind AfterMesh nodes. And I then control the division by setting the density of each distributor at the top of the tree.

 

But I'm wondering if there's a better way to achieve my end goal - with fewer nodes?

[Eduard]

Hello HenrikBC,

 

You can create 2 Wind modifiers, the first one will have a weak wind effect and the second one will have a strong.

And for the second Wind set Count rate = 20%. Please see my screenshot:

 

 

Thanks!

[HenrikBC]

@Eduard Ahh, brilliant! I will try this out. Thank you! 

PS: Is there a reason everything except for the Count Rate % and the Seed offset is present in the main node tree? I previously noticed that I could find the Seed in the right panel but totally missed the Count Rate parameter (but probably wouldn't have guessed I could use it in this manner anyway)?

[Eduard]

14 minutes ago, HenrikBC said:

@Eduard

PS: Is there a reason everything except for the Count Rate % and the Seed offset is present in the main node tree? I previously noticed that I could find the Seed in the right panel but totally missed the Count Rate parameter (but probably wouldn't have guessed I could use it in this manner anyway)?

 

Yes, we've removed these parameters to reduce the node size, and these parameters are the same for all nodes, so they are only in the sidebar.

Thanks!

[HenrikBC]

Got it - thank you!