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  • A Good Feather Falling Effect?

    Posted by Erin Shelby on April 5, 2006 at 3:28 am

    I’m trying to make an illustrator image of a feather fall like a feather. I’ve kinda figured it out using manual keyframing but was wondering if there was an expression-tastic or particular way to do this?

    Bonus Question: What does the third value of wiggle do? [ie: wiggle(x,y,z); “z”]. I often never use it but just noticed it existed, it doesn’t seem to really change anything as far as I can tell either. Hmmm…..

    Ryan Hill replied 20 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Michael Duff

    April 5, 2006 at 4:03 am

    there is a tutorial or artical floating around, it may even be here on the cow, where you can use shatter to create a falling leaf. I played around with it and got a fairly good looking result.

    Michael Duff –
    Southern Cross Ten, Australia

  • Mike Clasby

    April 5, 2006 at 4:20 am

    Creating a falling leaf effect by Dan Ebberts:

    https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=8

    is cool, but a little tricky, but it’s where I’d start.

  • Erin Shelby

    April 5, 2006 at 7:49 am

    most impressive. Dan Ebberts is blows me away.

  • Mike Clasby

    April 5, 2006 at 8:28 am

    Yep, I agree, blows me away like a feather.

  • Erin Shelby

    April 5, 2006 at 6:59 pm

    hahaha, very punny

  • Ryan Hill

    April 6, 2006 at 9:03 pm

    From Roland R. Kahlenberg’s article here:
    https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kahlenberg_roland/expressions/index.html

    The wiggle Expression requires three parameters to make it work. The first parameter tells AE how frequent you want it to kick in, the second affects the variation of the effect, and the third tells AE when in time you want it to work.

    Though I’m not too clear on what that’s supposed to mean.

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