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Trapcode particular problem!
Hi! I’m making some light trails with trapcodes particular plugin. But I have a problem with that:
I’m going too fast for the plugin. I’ve set the particles/sec at 400 (maximum) but I the line is not nice anymore. Sorry for my english but look at the picture and see what I mean!
In other words; the amount of distance the line has to travel per frame is too much so the particle generator doesn’t generate enough particles to make a nice line. It gets dotted. (see pic!)
PICTURE LINK:
I already tried to change my comps frame rate from 25 to 50 or even 99 but the particle generator (trapcode) works with particles per second and not particles per frame so that doesn’t work out for me!
Can anybody help me out here please?
Great thanks in advance!!!!
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8 Replies
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do a comp at like 4 times the length you need, move the light trail over that time and render out the movie file
then import the movie, time remap it to be shorter like your original comp length.
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thanks for your reply! but I don’t think that’s possible because that light trail follows a certain point. That point is an object in my main movie were I animate these light trails on top of. So if I make it longer and then shorter and import it it will not be synct anymore I guess… Or am I wrong?
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you can time remap the footage to be as slow as you need it to be to track the object and get the light streaks to look good.. As long as you speed it up by the same factor you slowed it down, it will match up. Just don’t use the video footage (turn off the layer) when you render out your effect. Make sure you use a codec that supports an alpha channel when you render out the footage.
in effect, you’re just making more frames for the effect to happen over, then shortening the length of the effect by speeding it back up.
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I’m confused… My copy of particular isn’t limited to 400 particles/sec. I can go up to 200,000 particles/sec.
Also, have you considered creating an auxiliary system that would emit additional particles from the main particles? If you had 10 auxiliary particles/sec emitting from each of your 400 particles/sec that would be an additional 4000 particles/sec.
Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
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Yeah, I was thinking the same – Particular is definitely not capped at 400 particles/sec. You might be able to fix the problem by increasing the particles/sec to a number in the 1000 to 2000 range. It’ll take longer to render, of course.
Andrew Kramer has a couple of good tutorials for creating light streaks with Particular, such as this one:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial.html?id=42
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ya know, I thought that seemed off… but I was just considering the workaround, not the limitation of the plugin.
My brain is kinda fried today. Oh, well.
I’ve done massive amounts of particles in Particular for a swarming bees animation recently. I should have snapped to that…
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that’s strange!! I can’t have more then 400 particles per second! 🙁 I’ll have a look into the auxiliary system!
Can it have something to do with my licensing for trapcodes particular?
Thanks for your help!
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he guys! I found it! finally! There are 2500 particles per sec generated right now!
I guess working for days and nights on 1 project on and on pays the price now!
Again. great thanks for your fast replies!! 🙂
Greetz Vincent
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