{"id":283,"date":"2017-06-25T22:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=283"},"modified":"2017-07-07T19:12:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:12:47","slug":"attribute-output-types","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/?docs=particle-flocker-user-guide\/system-components\/particleflocker\/attribute-output-types","title":{"rendered":"Attribute Output Types"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The output type of a Particle Flocker attribute controls the value which is used <em>per particle<\/em> during simulation.<\/p>\n<p>There are several output types available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/?docs=particle-flocker-user-guide\/system-components\/particleflocker\/attribute-output-types\/constant\">Constant<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/?docs=particle-flocker-user-guide\/system-components\/particleflocker\/attribute-output-types\/random-between-2-values\">Random Between 2 Values<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/?docs=particle-flocker-user-guide\/system-components\/particleflocker\/attribute-output-types\/per-particle-expression\">Per-Particle Expression<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can change the output type of an attribute by selecting the small blue arrow to the right of a Particle Flocker attribute in the Particle Flocker Window.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-284\" src=\"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AttributeModes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AttributeModes.jpg 506w, https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AttributeModes-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alternatively this can be done in the Attribute Editor of a ParticleFlocker node by changing the attribute&#8217;s <em>Type<\/em> attribute as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-439\" src=\"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AttributeOutputType.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AttributeOutputType.jpg 480w, https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AttributeOutputType-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"doc_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/283\/revisions\/453"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/34"}],"prev":[{"title":"Particle Flocker Attributes","link":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/?docs=particle-flocker-user-guide\/system-components\/particleflocker\/particle-flocker-attributes","href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdoc_tag&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}