• Adobe After Effects

  Shatter effect – gradient control has no effect

  Posted by Annaël Beauchemin on August 29, 2005 at 5:00 am

  I’m trying to delay a shatter effect using a vertical ramp, but it has no effect.

  I *did* select the gradient layer
  I *did* animate the threshold from 0 to 100.
  I tried in both inverted and non-inverted.
  I also read the manual and some tutorials…
  I even tried to redo it from scratch using default values, same thing.

  if anyone has ever experienced this and knows the catch, i’m glad to hear what i’m doing wrong!

  here are some screenshots…
  https://lecoyote.myftp.org/~g5/001.jpg
  https://lecoyote.myftp.org/~g5/002.jpg

  thanx

  Sean Bowerman replied 18 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
• 6 Replies

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  Michael Duff

  August 29, 2005 at 8:21 am

  try pre-composing the gradient layer…..
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  Annaël Beauchemin

  August 29, 2005 at 8:36 am

  forgto to say that I did try to precompose…

  and i’m on AE 6.5.1, OS X 10.3.9
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  Yoondo

  August 29, 2005 at 9:04 am

  Only other thing I can think of is that you will need to animate the
  threshold value in the gradient twirl down.
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  Yoondo

  August 29, 2005 at 9:07 am

  Sorry, I must have skipped that part about threshold keyframing that you did.

  Maybe you need to play with the force field size.
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  Annaël Beauchemin

  August 29, 2005 at 6:47 pm

  thanx for the suggestions.

  For the record, I finaly got it by precomposing the gradient and the shatter layer together. It doesn’t make sense, but maybe there was something fuzzy with my other layers… anyway, now I got exactly what I wanted… this geat feeling of satisfaction 😉
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  Sean Bowerman

  September 12, 2007 at 1:08 pm

  hey there,

  i know this was a long time ago but i’ve got exactly the same problem… if you can remember any more details about how you solved this problem i’d be eternally grateful.

  thanks in advance.

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