• Adobe After Effects

  Shatter effect settings

  Posted by Kelly Johnson on March 3, 2007 at 5:12 am

  I’ve been through the manual but I can’t seem to figure out how to shatter something along a plane. It seems as if the shatter always occurs in a ‘sphere’ or outwards.

  I have an animation of a glass block falling backwards to the ground and I’m wanting to add the shatter effect once the block is down but it always throws the shards ‘up’ no matter what I try.

  The Gravitational direction and strength seem to have something to do with it but I can’t seem to get the right settings to just make the pieces spread out along the horizon line.

  I’ve tried moving a camera to get a different angle, but the pieces still come ‘at’ you.

  Any tips?

  Kelly Johnson replied 19 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Victor Nash

  March 3, 2007 at 7:21 pm

  Check out this tutorial.. You find using gradient layers useful for what you want to do

  https://www.creativecow.net/articles/unguren_ben/shatter/index.html

  “kis” it
  Keep it Simple
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  Kelly Johnson

  March 4, 2007 at 5:50 am

  Thanks, that’s just what I was looking for!

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