Particle Illusion 3.0.1a Transitions?

[Elvis Deane]

Particles can pick their colour up from a background image, cover that image up, and then move off screen as you hide the image to reveal the background image on the layer below.

The same techinque is used in this tutorial to blow up a person, but if you were to replace the person with a full background, you can create a transition.
https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=23&page=/articles/deane_elvis/disintegratePeople/index.html

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[Donovan Werts]

Thank you for your reply. I had already found the tutorial to blow up a person, and couldn’t figure out how to change background image options per the instructions (Background Image options for that layer, uncheck the Hold Last Frame box.)I tried right clicking on the bg image layer and of course that option isn’t there. I’d love to do that effect, can you spell it out a little for me? Thanks! Donovan

[Elvis Deane]

If right-clicking doesn’t bring up a menu with Background Images as an option, try double-clicking on the grey square in the layers window. That will bring up the same box.

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Elvis Deane!
The particleIllusion FAQ
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Astounding Adventures

[Alan Lorence]

You saw that “melting away” example in the “3.0 sneak peek” reel in our gallery I think.

There are MANY ways that you can use emitters for transitions. Three of the first I can think of are:

1) use emitters as-is to transition (requires another app for compositing) — a line of fire, explosion, etc.

2) Use the alpha channel (in another app) for transitioning. Create an emitter that fills up the screen, wipes across it, etc.

3) Use emitters that use the “get color from layer” feature. Use a line emitter to “peel” the image away, an area emitter to “shatter” the image, etc. The key here is to “turn off” the background image after the emitter grabs its colors from it.

Alan.
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[Donovan Werts]

Thanks guys for the quick replies, and good information. It makes more sense now. I appreciate your help!