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iPod Nano effect in 3D
Hi,
I followed Andrew Kramer’s tutorial on the iPod nano effect using TrapCode’s Particular. I have run through that tutorial with no problem, but I am looking to add more to the effect.
I have a 3D shield in the center of my stage, which rotates over the course of the movie. I want the light ribbon to wrap around the shield, however I cannot seem to get it to work.
I found some stuff about using obscure layers to make you able to use 3D space around other layers. However, the obscure layer has to be under the particle layer, which is under an adjustment layer to give your particles color. Because of that, the shield layer gets the color and glow properties that I only want on my particles.
Is there any way to be able to make the particles ‘orbit’ the shield without having the adjustment layer property?
Thanks,
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4 Replies
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Hopefully you will get a better answer than mine. I had the same problem. The way I got around it was to color the actual particle and do away with the adjustment layer.
I don’t have AE in front of me, so I can’t check what else I did to change the effect. I know that I manually moved the “light” emitting layer around in 3d space. That allowed me to have control over where to cut the layer front to back for the obscuring.
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You don’t have to use an adjustment layer – just apply the same color effects to the Particular layer directly. Then delete the adjustment layer.
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I’ve tried applying the same settings to the particle layer. Only the glow works, the only way I can get the hue/saturation effect to work is if I drop the colorize lightness to like -65. That severly messes up the color. Also, the glow effect is not nearly as rich and vibrant.
Is there any way to tell After Effects to not apply an adjustment layer to a particular layer?
–Andrew
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Here is the trick.
1. to the white particle layer after almost all steps are done. Apply the Colorama filter.
2. change the input phase to alpha from intensity
3. On the output cycle change preset to alpha ramp
4. there are two point int he preset at about 0 and 360. change the point that is behind to the right to black, by double clicking it.
5. Add your glow to the layer now that it has an actualy rgb ramp and add the colorization.Best,
Andrew
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