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Shatter layer
Hello,
is there any plugin or script to shatter a layer into new layers? -
7 Replies
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What exactly do you mean by that- a bit more information about what you are trying to achieve can prove useful. Are you trying to shatter/explode a layer in pieces that you can individually control after? Is it a video/image layer or vector art?
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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If what you mean is to “shatter” the layers into new, rectangular, layers (that are controllable, there are scripts around that will do it. But as Ted said, a clearer explanation would help…
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Yes, i want it to explode it into pieces that i can individually control after (in Newton 2) it would be a vector art but could it work for an image or a video?
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As long as it remains a shape or layer, you’ll be able to control it in Newton. So I would think that the Shatter plugin would no longer be a choice, since the pieces are spawned from within the plugin, and don’t become layers.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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you can use the Voronoi shatter script to break your footage in any number of pieces, then you can use Mask to Layers script to get a layer per mask, then if newton supports masks you’re ready to go, otherwise you’ll have to create shapes from the masks.
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You can use CC Pixel Polly combined with an Andrew Kramer plugin if I’m not mistaken. I don’t have his plugin or script available anymore but I do know that he still hosts the repository on his site!
Hope this helps!
-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015 -
Voronoi shatter is all you need, then Newton takes care of the splitting into layers 🙂
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