• Adobe After Effects

  Creating particles that animate on a path.

  Posted by Justin Maloney on July 21, 2014 at 8:31 pm

  Hey there, I have a project where I need to animate streams of small objects flowing down tubes. I was thinking of using particular to generate the random objects and add rotation, etc. I was wondering, is there an easy way to make the emitted particles travel down a motion path? Not animate the emitter itself, just the particles.

  Thanks!

  Derek Boettcher replied 11 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Szalapski

  July 21, 2014 at 9:35 pm

  Look in the Particular help files for info on Motion Path. (It’s under the physics group Air>Motion Path. Basically, you animate a light following a certain path and you tell the particles to follow that light. It’s pretty fun.

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  Derek Boettcher

  September 14, 2014 at 1:16 am

  Though this project is probably gone, I would look in to the plugin newton. Basically it is a 2D physics engine, so with some carefull building im sure you could get the particles to follow a specific path.

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