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Would like to create particle system that “sticks” to another layer
Hello all
I’m trying to create a lower third for a video and want to use a particle system in a background layer
my thinking (or at least my hope is) that I should be able to create the solid filled border on one layer the particle system (and it’s cells and emiter) on another layer and the text on the final layerwhat I want is for the particles to stay within the border
I tried aline emiter but over time the particles begin to sneak outside of the solid bar I made for the lower third right now the individual particle cells (which are three rectangles) hav an attrated to simulator applied to each of them individually this seems to keep them on the borderbut there must be an easier way?
thanks in advance for any help
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Unfortunately, Motion doesn’t yet have wall/floor region parameters, like particle systems in other applications have. They will surely add that functionality in a future version. The soliution you came up with is as good as any other, I guess.
You shouldn’t have to apply it to individual cells, though. I achieved what you want to do (or what I understand you want to do) by applying the behavior to the emitter. The key parameter is “drag”, which forces the whole system to stay “glued” together. Also “fall off rate”, which controls how the the cells spread.
Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
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What about using the lower third border to create a mask that you place on top of the particle layer? Would that work?
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