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Trapcode Particular Popping in and out
Seems simple enough, but can’t find an answer… Using TP in having objects fall from sky, much like rain or snow but using images (textured polygons). The problem I am getting is that the images, whether it is the images or raindrops, or snowflakes, etc pop in and out of existence on screen, randomly, and I’m not sure where to get that to stop and have the flow be more like natural snowfall, etc… I messed with the random, life settings etc but they keep popping in and forming out of nowhere. How can I change that!? Many thanks!!
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Are you sure you have set the life cycle correctly for your textured particles…random freeze frame should be a pretty safe one.
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Thanks Dave… Yes… I viewed frame by frame and they just randomly appear. To simplify… I’ve taken sets of leaves, set them up on separate layers – each two seconds in length – set that comp as my images which is set to random – still images under textures. They should just flow down but every now and then one pops into birth, foreground and background randomly as they are falling. Can’t get it to adjust at all…
Thinking either my leaf layers are either too long or too short, but I watched a tutorial on setting that time remap and each image is set to only one frame, so I thought two seconds would be even better?
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Thanks John… Yes, exactly. I actually went thru each of them, even thinking the freeze frame would be the better shot, but they still pop in and out right in the middle of the screen.
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The tutorial said incidentally to use Random – Still image and in the tut they don’t pop in and out but hold for as long as the project runs… Go figure?
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If you are on Ae CS6 or later? Does the problem go away if you clear the disk cache and purge memory?
If so, you should make sure you’ve got the latest updates to both Ae and Particular. There were a few bugs related to the new global performance cache features.
Walter Soyka
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Yes… On AE CS6… I’m updated on AE and Red Giant, but I haven’t purged, etc, which when I did, it seemed to do the trick. The initial pop in and out which was dead center on screen, even when I adjusted the length, randomness, etc, I was still getting it… but for now, considering the scene is only 10 secs in length, I don’t see it any longer. I think perhaps that might have solved it! Thanks Walter… and all!!
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Trapcode Particular has a bug that trips up the After Effects cache system. The Trapcode folks are aware of this issue, but it can’t hurt to let them know through the Red Giant Software bug report form that this problem is biting you.
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