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  • Shatter effect -How to make tiles fly away from camera?

    Posted by Redgin on August 6, 2007 at 6:59 pm

    Hey, i’m working with shatter effect. But the tiles always seem to come towards the camera. How do i make them go the opposite way?

    Redgin replied 19 years ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Redgin

    August 6, 2007 at 10:52 pm

    Thank you very much, i will try this.

  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    August 7, 2007 at 3:45 am

    Set Shatter’s Gravity Inclination to -90 and its particles will fly away from the camera.

    Cheers
    Roland Kahlenberg
    https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
    https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace

  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    August 7, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    Of you could set Gravity to a low value, perhaps even a small negative value BUT set Strength to a negative value. This will essentially implode rathe than explode the layer.

    Cheers
    Roland Kahlenberg
    https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
    https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgrbspace

  • Redgin

    August 18, 2007 at 9:09 pm

    Thanks for all responses, but I still can’t get this to work :/

    When I parent the camera/light to the null and rotate them, the tiles still fly towards the camera. And I followed the instrucions exactly as described.

    When setting the gravity inclination to -90, the tiles fly towards camera for a few frames, then they suddenly turn.

    And the final version can’t work becouse the tiles simply implode to the middle of the screen, and that’s not really the effect i was looking for.

    Have someone got this to work? Maybe someone have an alternative way to do this?

    Any response would be highly appreciated.

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