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  • How to make plugins?

    Posted by Jeremy Fabiano on May 19, 2008 at 9:10 am

    Been curious about making plugins.. searched google, but I only seem to find things on BUYING plugins, or companies that will MAKE plugins.. nothing on how to do it at home..

    Anyone have any info? Links? Tutorials?

    Not asking for a step by step answer (but by all means if you’re bored go for it 😉 ) – just the location of info to teach myself how to do it…

    Had some ideas for some plugins, but have no clue where to begin..

    -jeremy

    Jeremy Fabiano replied 18 years ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Simon Bonner

    May 19, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    There are a couple of links to related threads beneath this thread, which shows that searching for related topics is always a good idea. I would add that you may be better off starting out making presets, which can achieve quite complicated effects if needs be. It’s much easier than getting into the mechanics of plugins.

    Simon Bonner

    youtube.com/simonsaysFX

  • Jeremy Fabiano

    May 19, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    thx – yeah I played a little with presets.. but I thought they were only for ONE effect? can you combine multiple effects under one preset?

    like say you wanted glow + beam + trapcode shine under the same?

    I thought only plugins could pull that one off… ?

    -Jeremy

  • Kevin Camp

    May 19, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    [Jeremy Fabiano] “like say you wanted glow + beam + trapcode shine under the same? “

    yes, you can add several effects with specific values, you can even animate values and other parameters (like position, scale etc.) or add and have those included in the preset, you just need to select the effects and any other adjusted parameters, then choose animation>save preset. then any time you recall the preset, it will apply all the effects and settings that you chose to include when you saved the preset.

    Kevin Camp
    Senior Designer
    KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • Simon Bonner

    May 19, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    I recently recorded a 5 min video tutorial on creating multiple effect animation presets with keyframe animation, and just uploaded it. You can see it here.

    I don’t mention it in the vid, but you can also add expressions to presets. Just select the property to which you’ve added the expression before saving the preset.

    Simon Bonner

    youtube.com/simonsaysFX

  • Jeremy Fabiano

    May 20, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    Thanks a load Simon!

    I think this might have been exactly what I was searching for.

    -Jeremy

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