Ok, I'm fairly new to this, and I very well might be missing
something, so please bare with me.
One of the things that I would like to do is have a particle system
generating particles on a keyboard input. (i.e. I press the "s" key
and the particles start being generated.) I can only seem to turn
render layer of the particles on or off, but they continue to be
generated when not being rendered. Is there anything I can do?
Similarly, I want to have a non-looping movie start playing on a
sprite on a keyboard input. Again, I can only seem to turn the
rendering on or off, but the movie keeps playing. I've tried to use
an interpolation patch and external time control, but the composition
continued to become increasingly complex and I never really got
anywhere.
I'm ultimately wanting to create a purely quartz composer composition
for a presentation for a fundraiser for my high school, so I'm not
integrating this into an application.
