• Adobe After Effects

  Particular sprites with animated comps?

  Posted by Mark Jacinto on June 30, 2017 at 3:54 pm

  I basically want to know if it’s possible to have several comps with animations inside them as the particles in a Particular emmiter.

  I have a Particular layer with a Particle Type of Sprite.
  The sprite texture is set to a comp called “Fun Particles.”
  The Fun Particles comp has 4 frames and each frame has a comp (Comp1-4).
  Comp1 is 200×200 and has a square that has a stroke that goes from 20 to 0 (60 frames long).
  Comp2 is 200×200 and has a circle that has a stroke that goes from 20 to 0 (60 frames long).
  Comp3 is 200×200 and has a tiny square that has a stroke that goes from 20 to 0 (60 frames long).
  Comp4 is 200×200 and has a tiny circle that has a stroke that goes from 20 to 0 (60 frames long).

  It doesn’t really matter what I set “Time Sampling” to because it will typically just loop through all 4 frames…which is not what I want. Is this possible?

  Mark Jacinto replied 9 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Richard Garabedain

  June 30, 2017 at 6:59 pm

  Im not sure i understand…are you saying you want the particle to be a comp that has animation in it…?
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  Walter Soyka

  June 30, 2017 at 8:50 pm

  Make “Fun Particles” 240 frames long, and sequence Comp1, Comp2, Comp3 and Comp4 within it. Each should be 60 frames long as you describe, and then should play back-to-back within the comp.

  Set the “Time Sampling” property to one of the “Split Clip” options. Set the number of clips to 4 (to match the number of equal-length comps you have above).

  Walter Soyka
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  Mark Jacinto

  June 30, 2017 at 9:39 pm

  Holy crap Walter that’s it. Thank you. I’ve been stuck on that for years with what seems like a no-brainer.

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