Piling up snow particles

[Stephen Smith]

I would take a look at the Particle Matrix plug-in. https://idustrialrevolution.com/plugins/particlemetrix/index.html
Hope this helps.

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[Mark Spencer]

I would tweak one of the preset snow emitters to make your snow falling down, then I’d create a screen full of snow either using a replicator or doing it in Photoshop and importing the image – I’d then use an animated mask with a wavy edge to reveal the screen full of snow from the bottom up.

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[Lupo Zin]

Thanks but I didn’t understand how this plugin can be useful for this purpose.

[Lupo Zin]

Thanks,
That’s what I was trying before.
The director wants an uneven pile, and the mask thing does not allow me to do it. at least not in a smart way without creating more and more masks…
there must be something from the 3d composting softwares that can allow it in motion… or is there?

[Lupo Zin]

Well…
I was trying to replicate the snow particle bottom up to the whole screen with replicator, but the bottom up does nothing different than the others, so if I’m choosing random it ignores the bottom up… bummer.
Now I’m doing thin lines of randomly replicated snow flake using replicator and I am duplicating replicator and layering it bottom up to on the timeline… hooray…
the problem is that rendering 2500 frames not only takes a while but crashes after 30 minutes… why?!?!?
I’m running a mac pro 2xquad 2.26 with 8 gigs of ram…
HELP!!!
(Thank you)

[Mark Spencer]

Why in the world couldn’t you make an uneven pile with a mask? You just draw the shape you want, and if desired, animate the shape of the mask.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Lupo Zin]

You are right. it just that it’ll involve more than one mask and getting so complicated. I was looking for an easy way out.
now my biggest problem is that motion will crash while exporting the replicator duplicates. I guess 6000 replicas duplicated 25 times for 2500 frames is too much to ask 🙁
thank you anyhow.

[Mark Menditto]

Which Ripple training courses should I run through to learn these? Thanks.