Elvis Deane
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Here’s some that I did a little while ago, with spore shapes and some bacteria-type things. You might have to reduce the number of them, there’s quite a bit going on.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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There’s a similar dust emitter in the March 2000 library, which should be easier to direct and control with the Emission Range and Angle properties. There’s also a Time-Lapse Clouds emitter that can be converted into this kind of effect pretty easily (I forget which library it’s in). You’d just need to increase the Life property and change the colours a bit.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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There are two tutorials that explain that sort of thing here.
There’s a library of fire emitters at Firelight Movies that you might want to check into for fireballs.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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I’ve done a couple in the last while, but most of them have been technical ones related to moving video between programs and that sort of thing. What types of tutorials are you hoping to see?
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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To output stuff to the web those two are pretty good, as well as XVID, though I’ve found that if I send files encoded with those to most people, they often need to go download the codecs.
Quicktime Sorenson 3 is usually a good way to go because most people seem to have QT installed.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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There’s no way to animate the position of a background image, but you can import a picture as an emitter’s shape, set the emitter to Single Particle, and then increase the Visibility all the way up. The walking mouse emitter is an example of this, just with an animated image rather than a single picture.
The only problem with this method is that since particle shapes have to be to the power of 16 pixels (256×512, 128×128), your image will get squished if it’s not that size.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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My dad is from India, so I get mistaken for everything. Which is fine, until someone starts speaking a language I don’t understand and expects me to answer them.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Thanks Tim! You must have one handsome cousin :p
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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The biggest problem with a large library is that it’ll slow down your workflow. Since the currently loaded library is stored in the RAM when you’re working, a big one can eat up quite a bit of your memory. I have some 200 mb libraries (for no reason other than I’m too lazy to delete some huge shape sequences in them), and performance definately takes a hit when I load them up.
Another downside could be that if you have all your favourites in one giant library and it gets deleted/corrupted somehow, you’ll end up losing everything. But the library backups takes care of that problem.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Great higgly piggly, those are some nice splashes! Makes ya just wanna animate pirates on jetskis.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion