Reflective confetti particles without plug-ins

[Kevin Camp]

cc particle world has an option to render the reflection.

i would normally do this on two layers, so duplicate the solid with particle world on it. click the ‘options’ text at the top of the effect settings on the duplicate solid. then select ‘rendering’ and then select ‘reflection on floor’.

you should now see a reflection of the particle system on the floor plane of the effect.

typically, i might reduce the opacity of that solid, add some blur or other adjustment to separate the reflection from the original system.

note, you can also duplicate just the effect (on the same layer) but in the ‘rendering’ settings of the second effect, check the option for ‘composite with original’, but it makes it harder to refine the reflection.

there’s also this technique which should work with any 3d particle system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfuVP7GL6o4

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

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[Sean Rodrigues]

Is there a way to assign a reflective material to the CC particle World particles?

Sean

[Kevin Camp]

reflective particles… sorry i misread your original post.

i don’t know a way to make the particles truly reflective. you can use a texture layer to texture some particle types (the particle types that have ‘textured’ as a prefix), and you can have that be an animated texture so you could try to fake it.

i’ve done ‘glittery’ particle systems that way, but the particles did reflect an environment or anything like that…

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Sean Rodrigues]

Thanks, Kevin. I’ll give it a shot with my particles.

Sean

[Sean Rodrigues]

I’ll try this, too.

Thanks, Kevin.

Sean

[Kevin Camp]

here’s a tutorial for particular, but it does show show a simple way to make an animated texture for any particle system.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/park_michael/glitter.php

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Sean Rodrigues]

Fantastic, thank you so much, Kevin.
Sean