• Boris FX Particle Illusion

  Blowing sand in the desert obscuring vision

  Posted by David Martin on December 8, 2005 at 12:50 am

  SOS all you Illusion Whizzkids,

  I need to create the illusion (ha!) of blowing sand from right to left at right angles to the direciton of sight. The idea is to create a wild sandstorm which partially obscures a desert scene. Once created, I’ll composite the PacticleIlliusion file with the background, in After Effects.

  I really have tried and searched the standard emitter libraries, but I’m afraid I’m too thick to see how to do this.

  Any assistance gratefully received.

  regards

  David, Ottawa

  David Martin replied 20 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Elvis Deane

  December 8, 2005 at 2:34 am

  There are a couple of Snowstorm libraries in the November 2003 library that would probably work well as a sandstorm. You’d really just have to change the colours in the particle types to a sandy colour, adjust the Emission Angle so that the particles are going side to side rather than diagnolly, and crank up the Motion Randomness, to make the storm more chaotic.

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  David Martin

  December 8, 2005 at 2:53 am

  Thank you. I’ll investigate your suggestions.

  Many thanks for your responiveness.

  regards

  David, Ottawa

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