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  • rectangles using cc particle world?

    Posted by Allison Spalter on March 19, 2009 at 6:01 am

    i’m trying to create money falling from the sky so i used cc particle world with a textured quadpolygon but now all the money looks like squares of money… since dollars are rectangle, is is possible to have them render as rectangles? thanks for your guys’ help 🙂

    Allison Spalter replied 17 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Kevin Camp

    March 19, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    place your dollar in a square comp, then use that comp as the particle…

    so if you currently have the dollar as a layer, just select it and choose layer>pre-compose and choose to open the comp. then adjust the comp settings (composition>comp settings) to be a square… so if the dollar was 100×50, make the comp 100×100.

    go back to the original particle word comp and it should be using the new ‘square’ particle, but it should look like a rectangular dollar now.

    Kevin Camp
    Senior Designer
    KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • Dino Muhic

    March 19, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Hi Allison,

    you can try to pre-compose the dollar texture by choosing Layer -> Pre-Compose, choose move all attributes into the new composition and check the “Open New Composition”. Then squeeze the texture by altering the height of it. Just click it and press S to reveal the scale properties, disable constrain proportions and play with the height value until it looks good in the particle composition. You’ll probably need to switch between the 2 comps for re-adjusting or you just create a 2nd viewer (ALT+SHIFt+N).

    sorry for my bad english

    Cheers

    Dino Muhic – Media Producer
    VFX – Motion Graphics – Web-Design – Or just ART
    http://www.dinomuhic.com

  • David Bogie

    March 19, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Did this with Foam and used a movie as the source. the move was two bills, front and back, applied to two CC Cylinders.
    Fabulous illusion.
    Also done it to simulate falling leaves.

    bogiesan

  • Allison Spalter

    March 20, 2009 at 1:12 am

    wow thanks guys!

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