• Adobe After Effects

  Particular emitter following path

  Posted by Moog Gravett on March 18, 2013 at 3:51 pm

  Hi guys,

  First up, I’m sorry. I know there’s a whole bunch of posts relating to this kind of thing, but after an hour or trawling and tutorial watching, I still can’t find an answer to my problem.

  I want to make a particular emitter follow a path (easy) but be able to rotate that path in 3d space (where I get stuck)

  So for example, I create a neat circular path with nice particles zooming round and round it, but then I want to duplicate it and rotate the whole thing 90 degrees (or whatever), or rotate that original path through 360 on the Y axis so it becomes like a fake particle sphere. You get the picture?

  To reiterate, I’m fine with copying masks to position keyframes and using lights as emitters and even using expressions to link x,y,z co-ordinates. It’s beyond that where it beats me.

  Is it possible?

  cheers

  Moog

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  Moog Gravett replied 13 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Cuevas

  March 19, 2013 at 11:59 am

  Have you tried using the world transform properties?

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

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  Moog Gravett

  March 19, 2013 at 12:47 pm

  I think I love you.

  How the Dickens have I never realised that before. Thank you – THANK YOU for letting me do something in 25 seconds that I spent all day yesterday stressing over.

  “I’ve learned something today” – Stan Marsh

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