Brian Charles
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[David Horler] “I have tried Particle Playground as it seems to have a good set of 2D physics which is what I need. However, I can’t change the particle sprites to circles (rather they stay as default squares) and I also can’t set their speed to 0 when they enter a certain area (however, I have managed to make them shrink to 0.5 scale when they enter the area as a test).”
Particle playground can use any layer as a particle the setting is under Layer Map. It uses Property Mappers to control size and speed. As Roland wrote, there are plenty of tutorials on the Cow.
Another option is CC Particle World, better still if you have it Trapcode Particular.
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Here is the tutorial you need.
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/create-an-animated-homage-to-bruce-lee-day-2/
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Check your “Live Update” switch.
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WSAF696587-2D81-42e2-B248-4C5C2B7D3614a.html
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Shadow properties are controlled by the light settings.
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The .dfont is a Macintosh format. You need to convert the font for use in Windows.
https://peter.upfold.org.uk/projects/dfontsplitter
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Also : If you’re really on a G4 how on earth are you running CS5?
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[mike jones] “This creates a circle vector Path and not a parametric shape.
“If you are indeed using the tool to create a mask and not a Shape layer, then you must select the Mask Path property and copy that, then paste it to the position property of the layer you want to animate.
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It is best to apply Particle World to a Comp sized Solid layer.
In your case the issue is how Particle World calculates its coordinates relative to the Composition. You can use an expression to tie the XY and Z position of the particle producer to another layer, generally a Null object.
See this example: 2926_particleworldwithnull.aep.zip
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[Donna Li] “do you know why i can’t export as mov??
“I hope you are not Exporting but using the Render Queue.
There have been issues with QuickTime since it is still 32 bit. To get it to work with CS5 64 bit it Adobe initializes a QT32 Server. There are many threads in the Adobe After Effects Forum about this https://forums.adobe.com/message/2796813#2796813
I’m sure you can find a solution there.