Particle using sprites from multiple files

[Gary Turner]

Anybody?
Help!

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Gary Turner
Creative Services – Media Sales
Oceanic Time Warner Cable
Honolulu, HI 96813

[Jan Sherlink]

Make a comp with all logo’s,
make them 1 frame long, so if you have 20 logo’s, the comp will be 20 frames long.
Drag that comp into you other comp with the particles.
In your particle engine, select your logo-comp as the source and set your source-timing to “still frame – random”

done !

cya,

Jan

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

JAN! That’ll work for Particular – which I don’t think the poster has. For Particle Playground it’s a lot more complicated.

Best is to check out my COW Tutorial here – https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kahlenberg_roland/game_pp.php

Cheers
RoRK

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[Jan Sherlink]

oops,
trapcode’s plugin’s seem so standard to ae 😉

For particle playgroud it’s not that different;
keep the precomp with the logo’s,
and in Particle Playground:
Layer Map: select the precomp
Time Offset Type: Absolute random
Random Time Max: just tweak it !

in Particle World:
Particle Type: Textured Square
Texture Layer: select the precomp
Texture Time: Birth
……….

same thing, different names

or, watch your tutorial indeed,
a bit difficult for a beginner but the best way to learn.

cya,

Jan

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Jan Sherlink] “trapcode’s plugin’s seem so standard to ae ;-)”

Very true! [Jan Sherlink] “Time Offset Type: Absolute random Random Time Max: just tweak it !”

This one’s tricky. If you’re not careful, you’ll have particles die off cos unlike Particular, there is no loop function for LayerMaps/Custom Particles. Best is to set it low enough so that new particles live long enough (dependent on Lifespan).

Cheers
RoRK

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[Sabrina Hochmuth]

Hi, please can anybody help:

I am using Particle World and tried this with a 2 frame comp.
And I use this for a permanent particle field. But now there aren’t any particles at all.

First I successfully followed these steps to create a permanent particle field:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1049035

Can anybody help how to get a permanent field with a 2 frame comp?