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Particles Orienting/rotating out
Hello All,
I’m using Particular to animate a bunch of famous people’s face to explode outward. I have about 100 people’s faces, imported them as an image sequences, used that image sequence as a custom particle, set the particle time sampling to Random – Still frame…everything’s good…except I’d like the faces to auto-orient (only in the x and y planes, not the z) away from the emitter. In other words, I’d like the tops of all their heads to point in the direction they are moving, on the x and y axis. Also, it might be important to tell you that I’m using a layer as the emitter-type. Is there a way to do this with Particular? I do hope I am explaining myself correctly. Let me know if you have questions. Thanks ahead of time for the help. -
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I’d also like the camera to pull out of the explosion of faces and do a full 360º rotation on its Z-axis, but it appears that Particular auto-orients toward the camera. This sounds like the same problem actually. auto-orienting to the camera instead of the emitter. hmmmm…
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Brian,
Sorry to break the news, but as far as I know, Particular always auto orients particles toward the camera. So if you rotate the camera in 3d space, even though the particles occupy true 3d space, they will always face the camera.
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Particle Playground has auto-orient switched off, by default. Give it a shot.
Good Luck
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I’ve found a solution for Particular. Harry Frank gives a great tutorial on how to do this here: https://www.graymachine.com/v3/07-particle-orientation-in-trapcode-particular.html
Check it out, it’s great! -
oh, no! this tutorial doesn’t exist anymore! 🙁
… so is it possible to orient a particle towards something with particular??
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