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Custom Particles in AE 6.0
I would like to create a custom particle that emits music notes (like pixie dust) on a motion path. I can create the motion path and a particle emitter, but I have no idea on how to get the music notes as particles. I have a music note type face to use. Please help! Thanks so much for your time.
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There are probably other ways but I know you can do what you want with Dan Ebbert’s Tut, “Building a 3D Particle Generator”.
https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/ebberts_dan/particle_gen/index.html
The particles are psd files (Photoshop) so you can put in whatever you want. Just go to the end of the tut, Moving Emitter.
I’m sure you can do this with Trapcodes PArticular, and Particle Illusion (SE version if fully functional 30 day trial, also soon to be an AE plugin), since you canuse images as particles. I don’t know AE’s PArticle Playground well enough to coment.
Anyways, Dan’s 3D Particle Generator is great for small quick jobs, just swap ypu “musical note” file for one in his comp, then dup until you get as many particles as you want, pretty straight forward.
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Thanks. I’ll give it a shot.
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