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  • Trapcode Form – replacing one particle with a comp

    Posted by Chris North on December 3, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    I have an array of particles in Form. I’m zooming in on a specific particle and would like to replace it with a high-res comp (since the particles resolution is necessarily quite low). Is there anyway to delete a specific particle or have one particle be hi-res?

    Michael Szalapski replied 14 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Walter Soyka

    December 5, 2011 at 2:28 am

    I think your best bet may be to animate the one hero particle manually, outside of Form.

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  • Chris North

    December 5, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    Would it be possible then to selective “remove” from one of the particles so I can place a comp there? at the moment they are arranged in a grid and overlap, so masking one out might be a pain…

  • Michael Szalapski

    December 6, 2011 at 7:43 pm

    If your comp covers up the particle, perhaps that would work enough. If the particles overlap too much, you could make one of them a very different color from the rest using color maps and then key it out.

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