Biggie
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It’s called both. When referring to vector art it Continuously Rasterizes the layer, when referring to maintaining the 3D layers within a precomp it’s called Collapse Transformations. Just depends on if you have it switched on on a vector layer or a composition.
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Look into Trapcode Particular, it can do swarms/flocks like what you’re looking for fairly easily and cheap as well. You can download a trial at http://www.trapcode.com. Hope that helps.
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Look into Trapcode Particular, it can do swarms/flocks like what you’re looking for fairly easily and cheap as well. You can download a trial at http://www.trapcode.com. Hope that helps.
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Hi Neil,
I agree with you, using Particular to do that kind of thing can get fairly tricky. While it CAN be done in Particular, I would suggest using Trapcode Echospace for this kind of thing instead, it’s exactly what it’s designed for. There’s a free demo on the Trapcode site. Hope that helps, let us know how it works out.
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haha thanks for the response, but that doesn’t really answer my question. I know invig doesn’t support .max but I was hoping someone could tell me how to convert it without a 3D app to something that invig does support if it’s even possible. Just curious if it’s possible, not a big deal though.
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If you click on John Dickinson’s head at the top of the Zaxwerks forum, he has some great video tutorials on exactly this. The ones you’re looking for are 3D Object Tracking parts 1 and 2, though I suggest watching all of them if you’re new to Invigorator. Hope that helps.
Biggie
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hey Darrell,
I think I might have been a bit off on that one, I think there’s an easier way. The easier way to do this using Particular is to set your text layer as the emitter for the particles, then offset the Affect Position parameter in Turbulence Field so that it starts high, and ends at 0. This will bring all the particles together to form your word with a bit of tweaking. I find that if I duplicate the text layer and bring the opacity up overtop of my particle layer just as the particles form the word, it looks much more convincing. Steps 1 and 2 of this tutorial should help you out.
https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae51_e.html
Good Luck,
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Hey Hoggie,
Are you using Particular? If you are then you need to set your text layer as the floor for the particle (you can have up to 2 floors per Particular layer). Then you just need to set the bounce value to be “stickier”. (I think I’m right on this one, I’m not at my computer with Particular right now but if I remember correctly this is how I did it.)
Good Luck
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I’ve never used Boris before, but I can tell you that from the sounds of it, it will do what you’re looking for. To insert a keyframe all you have to do is click the stopwatch next to the parameter you want to change then scrub forward in the timeline and change the value for that parameter. AE will “tween” any motion inbetween your two new keyframes. It’s one of the basic functions of AE, there’s not much you can do without keyframing.
I would suggest using the help file in AE before posting on these forums next time, most of the people on here including myself are professionals. And I can tell you that it gets pretty annoying when someone asks something about the basic functions of AE that are explained more than well enough in the help files. No disrespect intended, it’s just annoying trying to sort through all these posts for someone with a valid question who has done the research to solve his/her problem, just to find someone who decides to ask all of us rather than just find the answer themselves in the help file. At the very least, search the forums to see if your question has already been asked. Good luck.