• Adobe After Effects

  Everything in my render except Trapcode Particular!

  Posted by Nick Tallents on January 22, 2011 at 1:01 pm

  Hey

  Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this.

  Just got Particular and having great fun messing with it.
  SO i made this nice pretty comp with text and nice cam pans around growing green organisms made with TP. Looks fab!

  SO i finish tweaking camera angles and kit “add to render queue”

  I have tried rendering in a a variety of formats, but only the text appears, no particle systems = not so pretty comp 🙁

  I tried dropping it all into a pre-comp and the same thing happened in the comp window, without even trying to render.

  Really baffled have tried a number of attempts to resolve without success…..anyone know what im doing wrong?

  Many Thanks
  Nick

  Tudor “ted” jelescu replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 8 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  January 22, 2011 at 2:08 pm

  When asking a question like yours it is ALWAYS good to mention the system you’re working on, the software version and to post some screen grabs of your comp. This way we can get a better idea of what is going on. Unless some of us have experienced the exact same problem on a project exactly like yours (not impossible but highly improbable), all we can say is … weird!?!

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Nick Tallents

  January 22, 2011 at 2:37 pm

  Hey Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly

  System:
  AMD Phenom 9550 64bit
  4Gb RAM (another 4 on the way)
  1Gb Nvidia 9550 GT GPU

  Software:
  Windows 7 64
  After Effects CS5
  Trapcode Particular 2.1.1

  I have attached a screen grab of the comp and a grab of the render result, the particle layers are missing.

  Please let me know any more details you need.

  Thanks

  Nick
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  Nick Tallents

  January 22, 2011 at 2:49 pm

  Hey Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly

  System:
  AMD Phenom 9550 64bit
  4Gb RAM (another 4 on the way)
  1Gb Nvidia 9550 GT GPU

  Software:
  Windows 7 64
  After Effects CS5
  Trapcode Particular 2.1.1
  
  screencapture-render.jpg
  
  screencapture-comp.jpg
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  January 22, 2011 at 7:50 pm

  Even though you have CS5, see if you have OpenGL on and turn it off. Let us know if that does anything.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Jon Bagge

  January 23, 2011 at 12:11 am

  The layers in that comp called ‘particular’ are all guide layers. If those are the layers you actually have your particle system on, that will explain why they won’t render.

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  Jon Bagge – Editor – London, UK
  Avid – FCP – After Effects
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  January 23, 2011 at 9:56 am

  I looked at that screen shot several times but I did not catch that- sharp eye Jon!

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Nick Tallents

  January 23, 2011 at 10:15 pm

  Tudor: Thanks again, i have tried disabling open GL to no avail.

  Jon: This sorted it thanks so much, think i had been staring at that screen too long!

  Here is the finished product:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7GjuC_Io0

  Can either of you advise on how i could make this font 3d?
  Im using 3DS max but have not yet played with importing into AE

  Thanks both for your advice

  Nick

  “Life’s a progress bar”

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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  January 24, 2011 at 9:08 am

  Use PSD Extended to create 3D text then import that in AE.
  Or use Zaxwerks Invigorator

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist

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