Star wars effect

[Steve Roberts]

Radial Blur, set to zoom?
(it’s a render hog, though … be prepared to wait)

[Kevin Camp]

i think you could also do this with particular, using the aux system to emit from the main particles (the main particles being the stars).

if you have particular, i could walk you thru a set up to get started with…

you could also use cc particle world to create a starfield fly thru… not quite the same effect, but might work for you if you don’t have another 3d particle system, or zoom blur doesn’t work.

[Malcolm Desoto]

Andrew Kramer also has a tutorial on the Mac/ipod light streaks. You could probably achieve what you’re after with a few tweaks to that method.

[Rutger]

I think there is a fairly easy method as follows:

– Create a starry sky using the same method Andrew Kramer used in his Earth tutorial. This means adding a solid and using Fractal noise. I used the following settings:
Fractal Type Dynamic, Noise Type Soft Linear, contrast = 600
, brightness = -280. Now, you should see stars on a black background.
– Turn this layer to be 3D
– Animate it such that it moves towards the camera in z-direction only.
– Precomp this (Ctrl-shift-C), move all attributes
– Then apply the Echo Effect to the precomp
– keyframe the number of echos, starting at 0 to about 250
– Add glow and use toner as you like.

All it needs is a little sound effect and you should be done.

Hope this helps

Rutger

[50calguy]

thanks for all the help guys

[Julio Fernandez]

Hi moldyboot,

I would appreciate very much if you can do the walktrough using particular….

Thanks in advance