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  • Particular burst

    Posted by Carl Visagie on August 17, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    Im trying to make an effect similar to whats in the attached picture using particular.

    I have made a comp,thats being used as the texture layer, with 57 logos in it all cropped to a 500×500 size with a set of sequenced layers all set to one frame. thats being used as the texture layer.

    I have figured out how to get the particles to burst out and slow down/stop…

    the issue im having is that I cant get the particles/sprites/polygons to :
    A. only appear once (i dont want any duplicates)
    B. particles go out to one side and spread out more from the birth point.

    Kalleheikki Kannisto replied 11 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    August 17, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    Make your emitter directional and then mess with the directional spread to get the particles going in the direction you would like.

    As to not getting duplicates. If you set them to come out sequentially, you should be okay. Just set your particles per second to be your number of icons multiplied by the frames per second of your comp divided by the number of frames you would like them to be emitting. That might work.

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  • Kalleheikki Kannisto

    August 17, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    B. particles go out to one side…

    You can animate a light along the general route you want the particles to follow and set that as Motion Path.

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