[Craig Cooper]

I can get Lagarith to work from PI but I can’t get Sony Vegas to read the alpha unless I make the video track to “composite mode” and select “+”. I can’t see huffy to work from PI. It could be that it’s written for 32bit.

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[Craig Cooper]

Just copy the il3 files to the \program files\particleillusion 3.0\Emitter Libraries folder. Thats all you need to do to add the latest emitter library.

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[Craig Cooper]

I can’t get Lagarith to work on Win7 64bit. If you have let me know.

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[Craig Cooper]

I edit in Sony Vegas Pro. From PI I render out to uncompressed AVI if I want to use the Alpha channel which is almost all the time. In the render otions select “Save Alpha” and check the “Remove black from BG…….”. Then I import that clip as an overlay in Sony Vegas.

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[Craig Cooper]

The emitters are’nt HD or SD. The first thing you need to do is to set your Project size to what your require. At first the particles seem smaller than usual. Then simply adjust “Size” and “Zoom” in the properties. 1280 x 720 works great for me.

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[Craig Cooper]

A twisting ribbon is the one thing PI doesn’t have …yet. Maybe we’ll get one in a future library. Search for “Blue Twist Worm” maybe you can make that one work for you.

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[Craig Cooper]

Try “Smokey dissolve get color” emitter and see the effect when the particles pick up the background color.

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[Craig Cooper]

When you right click the emitter you’ll get options like make a line. Make a small line where you want the effect. (Some emitters might work if you make a point). Then play around with number and life til you get the effect. Also you might want to add blockers where you don’t want the effect to happen like only on the hair but not the dress. Be aware that blockers will use a lot of PC power so use them sparingly.

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[Craig Cooper]

There is a “flowing hair” Emitter_04_06. It’s not the same though. You can get the similar effect by using a smoke or dust emitter then in the properties – color you’ll see “get color from layer”. So the particle will use the color from your background. If you check the “update color from layer” then you’ll get the effect that smoke makes as it moves accross the picture so maybe you don’t want that. Play around with “get color from layer” it can be fun.

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[Craig Cooper]

Hey Paul, I use your “Gulls” emitters ver often, great idea. I know I’m begging but do you have any other emitters you created. Since Wondertouch have gone on strike I’m getting withdrawal symptoms :))

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