• Adobe After Effects

  Particular with Depth of Field

  Posted by John Hammond on July 15, 2009 at 3:03 pm

  Hi,

  Is there a standard way to get my ‘3d’ cloud of trapcode particular particles to have depth of field?

  I want it to be a real, live depth of field so as I rotate the particle cloud, individual particles come in and out of focus.

  John

  Lee Skinner replied 16 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Riccardo Sinti

  July 15, 2009 at 3:07 pm

  Add a camera and turn it’s depth of field on. And in particular chose a particle that supports DOF and select Full Render + DOF in the last tab that says Render Mode

  Thank You
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  John Hammond

  July 15, 2009 at 3:17 pm

  Ah, thanks! so simple.. for some reason I assumed I would need to ‘switch it on’ within particular.

  thanks

  John
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  Lee Skinner

  July 15, 2009 at 4:33 pm

  Although, I believe only the most recent version of Particular has this capability. For the longest time, I had to make due with a version that could not let particles be affected by depth of field… X(

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