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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects reversed shine effect ..like rays going from projector projecting to screen

  • Mike Clasby

    November 7, 2006 at 3:13 am

    Way cool, Filip.

  • Vince Becquiot

    November 7, 2006 at 5:30 am

    You, my friend, have spent a lot of time on this 😉

    Great results !!

    Now, I’m sure Echospace could take care of that layer duplication, been trying to find a second use of that plug in ever since I bought it 😉

    Vince

  • Mirek

    November 7, 2006 at 11:24 am

    one more question …because I would like the projector to be place in bottom part can you please write me the expression used to duplicate and scale the layer projected
    Thanx so far

  • Filip Vandueren

    November 7, 2006 at 12:40 pm

    Not sure what you mean,

    do you mean that we are looking at the projection and the rays are originating from below us ?
    Should work fine by just readjusting the position of the camera.

    I tweaked the file some more to have greater resolution and have the projection end in a smaller dot than in the previous example.
    The camera moves to a point you might find suitable, tweak it to your taste

    Also, this one uses CCRadial Blur with a negative amount, so it’s a bit more subtle, but the rays will never go further than the screen.

    Lastly, as a test the beam copies all had Motion blur activated: that’s something even most 3D apps won’t do easily: motion blur on volumetrics: yeay !

    the comp is up for grabs at:

    https://www.vandueren.be/forumstuff/volumetric/fake%20volumetric_b.aep

  • Filip Vandueren

    November 7, 2006 at 12:42 pm

    Don’t own echospace, but in essence i’ve programmed it’s functionality into my precomp:

    mutliple echos scaling up and fading out. I put some sliders on a null to control spacing and fading decay, but I believe echospace does the same, so there you go: Trapcode is the answer to everything 😎

  • Wim Roegels

    May 27, 2010 at 8:55 pm

    Hey Flip. It seems, that the link does not work anymore … is there another option?

  • Filip Vandueren

    July 5, 2010 at 12:23 am

    All projects and images referenced here can now be found at:

    https://users.telenet.be/Vandueren/forumstuff/volumetric/

  • Tim Fast

    July 5, 2010 at 7:45 am

    Sweet! Thank you very much, Filip! The video looks just great! Believe me, I’ve searched all over the internet but I couldn’t find anything even close in quality to this solution.

  • Ed Stables

    June 3, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    Hi
    I’m aware this was all a very long time ago, but does anyone still have a copy of the project? I am have been building my on as per Filip’s instructions, but am starting to realise why he used expressions when offsetting the layers. Also wondered if in the interim any new solutions have been dreamt up.
    Thank you
    Ed

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