• Adobe After Effects

  How To? Custom Particles in After Effects CC (2017)

  Posted by Tess Terrible on December 8, 2016 at 3:43 pm

  I am trying to figure out how to create custom particles in After Effects. I have an Ai File I’d like to use as a particle.

  The tutorials I have found online are just for older versions of After Effects. I’m totally lost.

  Little more about the project, I am trying to fill a map of DC with the word “Power.” I have already figured out how to Track matte particles so they fill a custom shape.

  I don’t have/can’t buy Trapcode.

  Walter Soyka replied 9 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Walter Soyka

  December 8, 2016 at 4:19 pm

  If you’re using CC Particle World (included with Ae), then set its Particle > Particle Type to “Textured QuadPolgyon.” Then, in Particle > Texture, set the Texture Layer to refer to your custom particle layer.

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