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  • Particle tracking

    Posted by Patrick Dorré on May 21, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    Hello wizards!

    I’m making this shot where the camera moves from the right to the left in a room. What I want to make is a particle line or swoosh trough the room. I’ve made the tracking data. I did this on 2 different null objects. The tracking is done perfect. Now I want my emitter point parent to the tracking data. But I cannot get this done!

    The animation of the particles going trough the room is done but it isn’t staying in place.

    How do I link the particles to stay on the tracked data??

    Thanks in advance!

    Patrick

    Brian Lynn replied 17 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Tielman Dewaele

    May 21, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    Hey Patrick

    I think you should simply pickwick your partical postion(x,y) to the tracked data position.
    Iff you are using trapcode particular, pickwick the emitors postion x,y to the x,y tracked data.
    If you moved the camera backwards, i think you will be needing an other program like boujou to track.
    Is it a filmed shot or (not-real)shot made in AE?

    T.

  • Patrick Dorré

    May 21, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Thanks for the quick reaction!

    It is a filmed shot. I all ready tried the thing you are saying, to pickwick the emitter to the tracking data but is isn’t working. When I do that it is just following the data in stead of emitting the particles forward.

    I heard about boujou as well, so maybe I’ll give that a try…

    thnx anywayz! And if u have an other idea, please let me know!

    Patrick

  • Tielman Dewaele

    May 21, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    Patrick,

    I gess boujou is the only solution for you answer…

    T.

  • Brian Lynn

    May 23, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Try taking a look at SynthEyes as well… Boujou is nice, but expensive. Quick review of the SynthEyes website and short tutorial videos will let you know right away if it can create the tracking information you need.

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