Cloud effect…yes I know its another one.

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Cloud effect…yes I know its another one.

Posted by Gnwanya on March 13, 2007 at 5:39 pm

Hi all

Before anyone has a go at me for posting a repetitive question, i understand that this effect has been covered numerous times before. I have gone through various versions, But i am continously struggling.

I am trying to create the static clouds in the sky effect using Trapcode particular. But im always going wrong, whether its an emmiter issue or a particle issue, something always goes wrong. Please can someone give me a step by step guide to creating this effect on a 720×576 pal resolution. I would like to suggest the clouds seem endless in every direction.I have followed the tutorials on trapcodes site. But i would appreciate more advice.

Thanks for your time.

Gus

Gnwanya replied 19 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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Gnwanya
March 13, 2007 at 6:06 pm

Hi Dave

If you meant the earlier “Animated clouds” post by dups303, then i was already one step ahead. 🙂 Unfortunately i’m still not having much luck there, as it really isnt step by step. Thank you for your imput. Trust me its really appreciated.

Cheers
G
Victor Nash
March 13, 2007 at 7:11 pm

here are some settings to mess with. This is just me messin around.. be sure to play around with colour over life .. light blues whites
etc.. Plus let the particles build up for a second or two.. then orbit away.. Of course this is just me throwing something together.. feel free to alter to your needs..

EMITTER
particles/sec: 2000
particle type: sphere
Emitter X: 4000
Emitter Y: 50
Emitter Z: 4000

PARTICLE
Life/Sec: 2
Life Random: 50%
particle type: smokelet
Smokelet Feather: 60%
Size: 60
Size Random: 50%
Opacity: 50
Opacity Random: 50%
Set Colour: Over Life (play with light blues and white gradients, not too extreme)

PHYSICS
Air
Wind X: 300 (Play with your own direction, I just plopped this value in here 🙂
Turbulance Field
Scale: 4
Move with Wind: 100
Visibility
Near Start Fade: 20
Near Vanish:10
Victor Nash
March 13, 2007 at 7:24 pm

if you want still clouds, just animate physics time factor from 1 to 0 around 1 second into the animation and the turn the winds to 0
Gnwanya
March 13, 2007 at 9:06 pm

Hi thetaxidriver

I know these were just settings you sent. But just to let you know, as a results i was able to track and understand what each parameter was doing and why. And in doing so was able make alterations as you suggested on the fly. Going forward its giving me a far better understand of particulars than i expected.

Thanks very very much for your input. Great!

G

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